In the kernel you have an option for congestion tweaking. Probably they enabled it. Sally floyd RFC 4782.
There are other tweaks as well for the tcp/ip stack. Try traceroute, tcpdump, mtr, wireshark to see where it gets stuck. BTW, on which protocol you got the slow speed? http or other? 2010/3/2 Hetz Ben Hamo <[email protected]> > Hi people, > > I'm having an argument with a hosting company abroad. Their mirror server > gives me full speed download (600k on my 5Mbit ADSL) while my server there > gives me half. > They say that they don't use any QoS tricks. > > I have talked to their support and I heard a weird claim: their mirror > server's kernel is "optimized for long distance download". > I never heard of such a thing in my life with the Linux kernel of such a > thing.. > > Could someone shed a light of such a thing? or is it a simple lie? > > Thanks, > Hetz > > -- > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > Skype: heunique > MSN: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
_______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
