Sluggers,
It has been many years since posting or attending a Slug meeting, this
has mainly been due to the disturbingly reliable nature of the few linux
machines that I operate and maintain.
I currently use debian (now Lenny) on a cutout down box as a
gateway/firewall/proxy, it has run for years, been updated periodically
and just carried on. Recently my Bigpond cable modem (SB4200) gave up
the ghost and refused to power on, I tracked down a replacement second
hand item (SB5101i) and registered it on the bigpond network and all was
fine and dandy. I also some time ago upgraded my cable account to the
extreme cable speed with the intention of getting a compatible modem.
Now that I have compatible modem I began to have alook at the download
speeds I could get with my new (secondhand modem) and my extreme bigpond
cable account. This is where things got a bit confusing.
In a nutshell, I found that on the debian lenny machine I could get at
best the equiv. to ADSL 1500 speeds, this was confirmed using
ozspeedtest.com and downloading a iso file from mirror.aarnet.edu.au.
Now, how do I know this is slow? I tried the same modem on a laptop with
windows and clocked out the speed test at the 30mb/sec (cable extreme
speeds). This lead me to do a few more tests, I got hold of the latest
version of knoppix 6.2.1 (which is damn awesome btw, the last version I
used was 5.01) and tried this on the same laptop and modem setup, I got
the same result as the windows result, full 30 mb/sec speeds. I then
downloaded the live version of debian and tried that, this time the
speed was a terrible ~1500kb/sec, basically the same as my current
installation on the gateway/proxy/firewall.
So, after some research, I did find some information regarding the
disabling of IPV6 on debian that may help internet speeds however this
was mostly a few years old and I felt this was like crippling the future
just to get things to work now (i did try it though but made no
difference in my case) and plus I knew knoppix worked fine and gave me
great speeds. I definitely do not have that intricate knowledge of
debian and knoppix to really know what the cause of this is so I am
wondering whether anyone else has experienced this with debian or has
any clues on how I can resolve it?
I can get into more specifics about my setup and provide more
information as required. I am pretty sure I have isolated the issue down
to debian, however am open to other possible causes.
TIA
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Best Regards,
Gerard
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