It sounds like the problem may not be with your machine. Sounds like heavy network traffic to me. I could be wrong. Look at you transfer rates at a later time if you can. If they go up, I'd say it was network traffic that was slowing you down. Jim On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:34, John Klingler wrote: > So, am I to take no response to mean that not a single person on this > list has anything to offer? No one knows of any guides or how-to's or > anything that offers any suggestions besides play with your mtu or get > irqtune? > > John Klingler > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Klingler > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:52 PM > Subject: Slow modem connection on FC1 > > I'm relatively new to admining Linux, but I've used it for > quite some time. I'm trying to set up a simple > dial-up/firewall machine for my home network using FC1. I've > actually got everything working thanks to all the how-to's and > archives, but I'm stumped by the extremely slow transfer rates > under a standard analog dial-up. As an example, under Windows > (through connection sharing from an internal machine) I can > get irqtune-0.6-1.i386.rpm from rpmfind.net using command line > ftp and get a transfer rate of 4.13 Kbps. Through my new Linux > router, I get about 0.72 Kbps (from either an internal machine > or the router itself). I've played with my MTU/MRU settings > and 704 (which seems like it's in the right ballpark for > dial-up) gives me my best transfer rate (listed above). > Turning iptables off doesn't make any real difference. I tried > irqtune and it boosts my connection a whopping 0.10bps. I > don't have any other proxy/chache services running. Since > Windows gets a fast connection, I'm assuming that I don't have > a noisy phone line or some other outside-the-Linux-box > problem. I'm fresh out of ideas and places to look. The system > is a Pentium Pro 200, 64MB RAM, USR Sportster 56k external > modem. I've included my pppd options file if it makes any > difference. I'm probably just missing something stupid, but > unfortunately, I'm missing it. Thanks in advance for your > help. > > John Klingler > klingweiser@xxxxxxxxxxx > "Searching for answers in Microsoft documentation is like > looking for a needle in a haystack. Except > the needle looks like a spoon and it was never in the haystack > to begin with." > -Me
