On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:40 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > How can the firewall cause the speed to be good for 2 or 3 seconds > > (1.5Mb) and then fall to 30Kbit? Anyone? > > There is actually rate limiting stuff in iptables, but presumably you > would know if you had enabled it. > > You don't specify what kinds of "internet" access you tried, was it just > http or you saw the same problem all over? > > I would re-enable the firewall, confirm the problem comes back and then > post the results of > > iptables -L -n > > and the early part of > > tcpdump > > while you try to make a transfer that is affected. > > -Andy > I am having just this type of problem on my F6 system and I have no iptables. I discovered the problem was a defective internet connector. -- ======================================================================= Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx