Yet another reason to not use RedScat.
so... do you think at&t is optimized for win98? maybe they trhottle base on
uname -r ?
Jamie
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 pm, Horst wrote:
: Recently I installed RH 8.0 from the demo CDs and noticed very slow
: download rates over cable (for the time being completely ignoring
: upload). Though I did a custom install there was little to config since RH
: detected and suggested DHCP (except the funny thing(*) below). For
: security I picked 'medium', that's iptables with DHCP traffic allowed plus
: ssh and http service, which I added.
:
: Web browsing under RH 8.0/cable is slower than on a good phone line
: connection under win98. Similar for plain console operation, like scp --
: putty scp on win98 is about 10 times faster (see clips below for a 70MB
: download, server far away). I noticed slower transfer rates with older
: 'nix installations before, but those were installed before adding cable
: (so I just blamed myself for not tweaking).
: In short, this is not distro specific, and doesn't seem to be application
: layer dependent (on both GUI and console): always, transfer using win98
: applications is much faster )-:
: I also added traceroute for both OS's, though only the 1st hop should be
: of interest(if at all), right?
:
: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through
: long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed)
:
: - Horst
: (*) the funny thing on RH 8.0 is that DHCP client doesn't seem to be able
: to get a hostname from ATT, thus using the entire MAC address of eth0 plus
: other crap as my host name in the command line prompt (leaving only 50%
: for me to type commands... until I manually set hostname)
:
: THe following records follow...
:
: ===== win98 / putty scp =======
: xyz.sql.zip | 23480 kB | 119.2 kB/s | ETA: 00:06:24 |33%
: xyz.sql.zip | 69311 kB | 109.8 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 |100%
: => about 10 min for 70 MB
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:
: ======= RH 8.0 ========
: xyz.sql.zip 10% |****** <snip>| 7004 KB 1:36:31 ETA
: ...Killed by signal 2.
: => would have taken 1.5 hrs
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:
: ===== win98: ============
: Tracing route to 66.178.136.22 (www.efn.org) over a maximum of 30 hops
:
: 1 14 ms 9 ms 10 ms 10.139.x.y
: 2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 12.244.85.1
: 3 10 ms 25 ms 10 ms 12.244.64.213
: 4 66 ms 13 ms 12 ms 12.244.64.209
: 5 12 ms 18 ms 13 ms 12.244.64.205
: 6 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms 12.244.72.42
: 7 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 12.123.44.57
: 8 17 ms 21 ms 17 ms 12.122.5.157
: 9 75 ms 32 ms 34 ms 12.122.2.61
: 10 33 ms 32 ms 37 ms 12.123.13.69
: 11 37 ms 37 ms 41 ms 12.123.221.2
: 12 37 ms 39 ms 41 ms 208.186.87.13
: 13 41 ms 38 ms 40 ms 207.173.114.141
: 14 88 ms 38 ms 75 ms 208.186.21.33
: 15 42 ms 45 ms 42 ms 207.173.114.58
: 16 45 ms 42 ms 43 ms 208.186.20.241
: 17 60 ms 57 ms 61 ms 207.173.115.41
: 18 149 ms 93 ms 202 ms 208.186.20.129
: 19 57 ms 58 ms 59 ms 216.190.151.142
: 20 62 ms 61 ms 64 ms 66.178.135.110
: 21 68 ms 68 ms 61 ms 206.96.130.251
: 22 * * * Request timed out.
: 23 64 ms 67 ms 66 ms 66.178.137.37
: 24 67 ms 100 ms 77 ms 66.178.136.22
:
: Trace complete.
:
: ======== RH 8.0: ===============
: 1 10.139.x.y 9.869 ms 8.270 ms 9.986 ms
: 2 12.244.85.1 9.472 ms 11.891 ms 24.743 ms
: 3 12.244.64.213 29.435 ms 9.673 ms 8.349 ms
: 4 12.244.64.209 15.013 ms 24.729 ms 9.878 ms
: 5 12.244.64.205 11.819 ms 13.417 ms 12.651 ms
: 6 12.244.72.42 14.729 ms 23.798 ms 19.512 ms
: 7 12.123.44.57 18.581 ms 18.220 ms 14.856 ms
: 8 12.122.5.157 27.143 ms 14.280 ms 16.127 ms
: 9 12.122.2.61 31.305 ms 32.376 ms 37.096 ms
: 10 12.123.13.69 32.957 ms 31.939 ms 35.193 ms
: 11 12.123.221.2 37.626 ms 37.957 ms 38.613 ms
: 12 208.186.87.13 38.813 ms 39.686 ms 38.005 ms
: 13 207.173.114.141 73.291 ms 62.231 ms 53.878 ms
: 14 208.186.21.33 41.366 ms 40.519 ms 39.219 ms
: 15 207.173.114.58 41.493 ms 53.242 ms 42.126 ms
: 16 208.186.20.241 46.523 ms 46.071 ms 44.927 ms
: 17 207.173.115.41 54.712 ms 94.296 ms 77.950 ms
: 18 208.186.20.129 57.697 ms 59.497 ms 56.909 ms
: 19 216.190.151.142 56.408 ms 68.434 ms 57.192 ms
: 20 66.178.135.110 61.916 ms 65.592 ms 63.018 ms
: 21 206.96.130.251 67.022 ms 61.514 ms 102.045 ms
: 22 * * *
: 23 66.178.137.37 63.124 ms 64.825 ms 65.743 ms
: 24 66.178.136.22 64.106 ms 64.196 ms 95.871 ms
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