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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Connection slow down HELP!! Date: 7 Aug 1996 13:43:14 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4ua312$dk@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <3200F65F.66BB@hcc.hb.eunet.de> <DvHCsJ.B6G.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert Chalmers (robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au) wrote: : Allermann (allermann@hcc.hb.eunet.de) wrote: : : we use bsdi 4.2 an an internet-server and a pc via modem as a client. : I had the same problem on a machine. It was the I/O card after all. : It was some cheap brand, and although it said it was 16650A etc, it still : couldn't do ppp. I replaced the card with a proper, designed : communications card, and all worked well. Especiall cards with Winbond : chips on them are no good.! [......] : : we use dialin via modem using ppp with a transferspeed of 57600 bps. my : : ftp-client contacts the server and display "socket connected" and : : "waitung for wellcome message". the server needs about three minutes to : : answer. we get the same result using netscape 3.0 to display the : : home-page. from contacting til receiving takes minutes. : : if we try to uplaod a file the throughput starts at 4.0KB and goes down : : in a few seconds to 0.01 KB.this makes a datatransfer allmost : : impossible. Our network guy (where I currently work) had the same problem with an ISDN link through Pipex - starts of good, degredates to nothing. I tried at one point to tell them there was a problem, but they wouldn't believe me either. It turns out that when they replaced our router, the problems went away...... sad ! -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....