On Friday 13 August 2004 20:59, John Krische wrote: > original 2.6.5 kernel or the updated 2.6.7 kernel (yum update), download > speed does something odd. It jumps up to about 180K/Sec, which causes > alarms to go off at our ISP since that's above a T1's theo. limit, and > then, shortly after 1.1 MB of file has downloaded, the connection speed > plummets to less than old 28K dialup, ie, 2 K/Sec or less. It's still > downloading mind you, but barely. Could this be the TCP scaling problem? Recent 2.6 kernels include the capability to use >1 TCP scaling. Some routers choke on it. echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling and retry. -Andy -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam
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