On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:19, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > > Just to throw in some more information: when downloading from a web site > > > in localhost or other host in my home network, Mozilla does everything > > > right. No matter the file size (I have tried up to 80 Mb downloads). The > > > problem appears when downloading from the Internet, which I connect to > > > through a Windows XP Pro machine set up to run ICS and hooked to a 256 > > > kbps ADSL connection. > > > > > Throughput on the internal network. Ah. > > How are you connecting to the XP machine? > > Let me describe briefly my home network set up: The XP machine has two > NICs, one hooked to the ADSL modem/router and the other one, which ICS > configure automatically as 192.168.0.1, connected to a 10 Mbps hub (I > hope I'll get soon a cheap 100Mbps switch). The other two machines in > the network are connected using twisted-pair cable CAT5 to the hub. > > XP machine (192.168.0.1) is used as default gateway and as DHCP and DNS > server for the other two machines. In reality, XP is just a DNS proxy > with a minimal DHCP server. No possibility of tweaking the DHCP server > although I managed to tweak the DNS proxy (the tweaked settings are lost > if the XP machine is rebooted). > > Am I missing something?
Set the Primary DNS to the XP machine, the secondary DNS to your ISP's primary DNS, put the IP of the XP machine in your /etc/hosts file, set Mozilla/Netscape (Under ADVANCED / HTTP NETWORKING) to Enable Keep-Alive and Enable Pipelining (under the Direct Connection Options). > > Again, thanks a lot. > > Adolfo > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thu Jan 9 14:50:00 EST 2003 2:50pm up 4:32, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.20, 0.18 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX." (By Stephan Zielinski)
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