On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 15:00 +1100, Gerard Blacklock wrote: > I will look into this tonight, you are right there are heaps of files, > any clues where to start?
Not really, maybe that's not the best first step, anyway. Try playing with ping and mtr, change the size of the ping packets, A ping -s 1472 will give a 1500 byte packet. It's a bit hard to workout the speed based on rtt because your link is asymmetric, but you can compare rtt between different distros. Ping your gateway for a test, rather than mirror.aarnet.edu.au. There are tools that works out the speed of an asymmetric link, though Tcpanaly Pathchar Bing Bprobe. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
