Thanks Mike I did check this, and my PC and firewall both have 100/full set.
I noticed that there appears to be an excessive amount of errors (and using Wireshark I can see a lot of retransmissions). But why would this only appear to affect the backup download? I don't notice the same problem when browsing the endian firewall admin site, or on internet access. MAC/IP addresses have been altered... eth0: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0 basic mode: 100 Mbit, full duplex basic status: link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0A:0B:0C:0D:0E:0F UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:170285293 errors:1862598 dropped:3907 overruns:4321 frame:1 TX packets:4709645 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1090786777 (1.0 GiB) TX bytes:2199229321 (2.0 GiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2400 regards Michael White wrote: > Make sure your duplex settings are auto/auto or 100full/100full on all > devices. If they are mis-matched your speeds will be slow > > -Mike > > > On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Paul McWhinnie wrote: > >> Hi >> >> When I choose to download a backup from the firewall to my local PC, the >> download speed is terrible (500 bytes per sec!). Downloading a 14MB >> file takes 7 hours. It would just about be faster to write the >> configuration down :-) >> >> Everything else seems to be working fine. I don't notice any problem >> with download speeds from external. >> >> Does anyone have any idea why this might occur? >> >> regards >> Paul >> -- >> Acceptable use of my email address: >> http://www.mcwhinnie.com/acceptable_use.txt >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with >> Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >> software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and >> code to >> build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power >> of local >> resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR >> SDK and >> Ajax docs to start building applications >> today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com >> _______________________________________________ >> Efw-user mailing list >> Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > > -- Acceptable use of my email address: http://www.mcwhinnie.com/acceptable_use.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user