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Re: Poor network (routing) performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Wed Aug 21 17:07:33 1996
To: joseph@voltec.com
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:20:55 EDT."
<199608210122.AA21462@voltec.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:32:25 -0400
From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
"Joseph Possert" <joseph@voltec.com> writes:
>Hello everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way I can improve the network performance of
>my Linux Box? Especially when it comes to routing packets through to
>the Internet.
> Here's the problem. When I use the Linux Box I have a fast
>connection. (Well as fast as 28.8 is). But when I try to use
>Netscape, or mIRC on my Windoze computer I get a really slow
>connection. It starts off great (>3KB/s transfer), but then it
>tappers down to 500 Bytes/sec and then to 100 Bytes/sec. This
>problem is also occuring on an Apple PC on the network. I'm using
>MS-TCP/IP 32b for my Windoze for Workgroups 3.11.
> I realize that Linux won't be as fast as a dedicated router, but I
>feel that the performance should be alot better than this.
> Does anyone else suffer from this problem?
Are you saying that if you run Netscape on your Linux box to
the same remote site as the Windows box you get a steady 3KB/s transfer?
Try this on both the Linux box and the Windows box at roughly the same time.
If you really are getting much faster response to the same site at
the same time on the Linux box, then we have something to look at here.
Otherwise, I'm betting that what you are seeing is just that the Internet
is increadibly congested these days.
[Anyone else want to have a completely seperate net for HTTP traffic
so that we can get some real work done in the background :-)]
-- eric
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