On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:10:43PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > In any case, I forgot to mention that I changed the MTU to both of these > values on the Linux machine and it did not help. Also, according to this > page: > > http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks/MTU > > The WinXP machine is configured to the default MTU which is also 1500 there.
It may not. XP supports "MTU discovery", where it tries to figure out the MTU that works. You may have it enabled and not know it. > > Another hint may be that using prozilla ( http://prozilla.genesys.ro/ ) like > this: > > <<<<< > proz -k=10 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.12.3.tar.bz2 > >>>>> > > on the Linux computer, gives a very good download speed. It opens ten > different connections. Then it may not be a (local) network problem at all. All ISP's support a proxy server and a "transparent proxy". It maybe that the browsers on the windows machines are set to use it and the linux machine's browser is set to not. Try setting the your browser's proxy to your ISP's proxy, for example, Netvision's is "proxy.netvison.net.il". Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Support the growing boycott of Google by radio users and hobbyists. It's starting to work, Yahoo has surpassed Google. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
