This is, as you say, ridiculously slow. But before I spent much time
worrying about the Linux and pppd configurations, I'd look into the
underlying speed of the phone connection. Modems are often set to report the
nominal speed of the link on the serial-port side, not the actual speed of
the link to the remote site via the modem side. How to change that can be
modem specific; read your modem manual.
For example, I still use a 33.3 modem. Due to compression oddities, it
reports connecting at 56 k. When I check the underlying connection speed, it
is typically 24 k or 26.2 k, reflecting limitations of the telephone lines &
central-office equipment themselves. Naturally, achieved download speeds are
limited by the actual speed of the modem connection.
At 10:03 AM 1/9/99 -0800, Jonathan Cromwell wrote:
>Hi - I'm running Redhat 5.2 on a Pentium-75 w/ an internal BestData
>V.90 56K connected to a V.90 ISP. Monitoring my FTPs and realvideo
>streams I seem to be getting data at a pretty consistent 15kbps. I'm not
>sure what I should be expecting, given protocol overhead, etc., but this
>this seems ridiculously slow.
>
>So, 2 questions:
>
>1) What is a reasonable user data rate to expect from a 56K connection?
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>2) Any suggestions on debugging my slow connection? I have tried playing
>w/ my MTU/MRU settings as well as the irqtune package and neither had
>any noticeable impact.
>
>Regards - Jon
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