On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, James Gregory wrote: > My problem is that the new firewall set up runs quite literally half as > fast as the old configuration. I have no idea why. By this I mean that > the download from mirror.aarnet I'm currently doing (which as I > understand it is routed through sydney uni's connection to aarnet and > just a few days ago was running at 5k/s) is running at about 2.4k/s. > > Unintersting information about my firewall: > > 56k net connection.
Check to make sure that the connection is being compressed. PPP has compression modules, and your modem might have compression too. It is possible that the Uni's pipe is being saturated a little more than it was a few days ago, or your connections might be throttled now, introduced coincidentally with your new firewall. (These are the sorts of things that Unis do to annoy people). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
