Ah!, there is a real difference between what a telecom provider tells you and the reality. In fact all FIOS is, is a LAN connection. I have a static IP from them, so all it requires is a router with that IP address (otherwise just a little ppoe stuff needs to be used). I have put in intervening firewalls and so on, which would be very foolish for someone not to have. It turned out that network problem was a flaky patch cable, "... curse those do it yourself cables... " :) Thanks Peter On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:51 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:09 -0600, Peter Dominey wrote: > > It has to be some configuration issue, I'm thinking. I am getting really > > lousy network performance, particularly evidenced when using Firefox to > > the Internet. I have followed the information I could find in FAQ'd etc > > and changed my /etc/sysctl.conf file: > > > I found performance improved considerably with a vanilla kernel. Why? I > haven't a clue. YMMV. Have you installed the caching name server? > > BTW, Verizon requires Windows for FIOS. I don't have FIOS (yet) so I > have no way of determining what the Linux issues are. > > -- > Our DNSRBL - > Eliminate Spam: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.php > Zombie Graphs: http://www.TQMcube.com/zombies.php > GeoGraphics: http://www.TQMcube.com/origins.php > ---------------------------------------- Scanned for Viruses! mail.dominey.biz ---------------------------------------- Scanned for Viruses! mail.dominey.biz
