Recently I installed RH 8.0 from the demo CDs and noticed very slow download rates over cable (for the time being completely ignoring upload). Though I did a custom install there was little to config since RH detected and suggested DHCP (except the funny thing(*) below). For security I picked 'medium', that's iptables with DHCP traffic allowed plus ssh and http service, which I added.
Web browsing under RH 8.0/cable is slower than on a good phone line connection under win98. Similar for plain console operation, like scp -- putty scp on win98 is about 10 times faster (see clips below for a 70MB download, server far away). I noticed slower transfer rates with older 'nix installations before, but those were installed before adding cable (so I just blamed myself for not tweaking). In short, this is not distro specific, and doesn't seem to be application layer dependent (on both GUI and console): always, transfer using win98 applications is much faster )-: I also added traceroute for both OS's, though only the 1st hop should be of interest(if at all), right? Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) - Horst (*) the funny thing on RH 8.0 is that DHCP client doesn't seem to be able to get a hostname from ATT, thus using the entire MAC address of eth0 plus other crap as my host name in the command line prompt (leaving only 50% for me to type commands... until I manually set hostname) THe following records follow... ===== win98 / putty scp ======= xyz.sql.zip | 23480 kB | 119.2 kB/s | ETA: 00:06:24 |33% xyz.sql.zip | 69311 kB | 109.8 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 |100% => about 10 min for 70 MB ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ======= RH 8.0 ======== xyz.sql.zip 10% |****** <snip>| 7004 KB 1:36:31 ETA ...Killed by signal 2. => would have taken 1.5 hrs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ===== win98: ============ Tracing route to 66.178.136.22 (www.efn.org) over a maximum of 30 hops 1 14 ms 9 ms 10 ms 10.139.x.y 2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 12.244.85.1 3 10 ms 25 ms 10 ms 12.244.64.213 4 66 ms 13 ms 12 ms 12.244.64.209 5 12 ms 18 ms 13 ms 12.244.64.205 6 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms 12.244.72.42 7 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 12.123.44.57 8 17 ms 21 ms 17 ms 12.122.5.157 9 75 ms 32 ms 34 ms 12.122.2.61 10 33 ms 32 ms 37 ms 12.123.13.69 11 37 ms 37 ms 41 ms 12.123.221.2 12 37 ms 39 ms 41 ms 208.186.87.13 13 41 ms 38 ms 40 ms 207.173.114.141 14 88 ms 38 ms 75 ms 208.186.21.33 15 42 ms 45 ms 42 ms 207.173.114.58 16 45 ms 42 ms 43 ms 208.186.20.241 17 60 ms 57 ms 61 ms 207.173.115.41 18 149 ms 93 ms 202 ms 208.186.20.129 19 57 ms 58 ms 59 ms 216.190.151.142 20 62 ms 61 ms 64 ms 66.178.135.110 21 68 ms 68 ms 61 ms 206.96.130.251 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 64 ms 67 ms 66 ms 66.178.137.37 24 67 ms 100 ms 77 ms 66.178.136.22 Trace complete. ======== RH 8.0: =============== 1 10.139.x.y 9.869 ms 8.270 ms 9.986 ms 2 12.244.85.1 9.472 ms 11.891 ms 24.743 ms 3 12.244.64.213 29.435 ms 9.673 ms 8.349 ms 4 12.244.64.209 15.013 ms 24.729 ms 9.878 ms 5 12.244.64.205 11.819 ms 13.417 ms 12.651 ms 6 12.244.72.42 14.729 ms 23.798 ms 19.512 ms 7 12.123.44.57 18.581 ms 18.220 ms 14.856 ms 8 12.122.5.157 27.143 ms 14.280 ms 16.127 ms 9 12.122.2.61 31.305 ms 32.376 ms 37.096 ms 10 12.123.13.69 32.957 ms 31.939 ms 35.193 ms 11 12.123.221.2 37.626 ms 37.957 ms 38.613 ms 12 208.186.87.13 38.813 ms 39.686 ms 38.005 ms 13 207.173.114.141 73.291 ms 62.231 ms 53.878 ms 14 208.186.21.33 41.366 ms 40.519 ms 39.219 ms 15 207.173.114.58 41.493 ms 53.242 ms 42.126 ms 16 208.186.20.241 46.523 ms 46.071 ms 44.927 ms 17 207.173.115.41 54.712 ms 94.296 ms 77.950 ms 18 208.186.20.129 57.697 ms 59.497 ms 56.909 ms 19 216.190.151.142 56.408 ms 68.434 ms 57.192 ms 20 66.178.135.110 61.916 ms 65.592 ms 63.018 ms 21 206.96.130.251 67.022 ms 61.514 ms 102.045 ms 22 * * * 23 66.178.137.37 63.124 ms 64.825 ms 65.743 ms 24 66.178.136.22 64.106 ms 64.196 ms 95.871 ms _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
