Re: DSL question

Jim,

I believe you will find there is a difference between
the hardware capability and the actual realized down
load speed. Your ISP multiplexes its bandwidth
between many users. When the performance gets below
an arbitrary level they redistribuate the allocation
of users. You may be able to complain and have them
switch you to a less used group. Technically they
only tell you that you can get speeds up to and they
don't garantee a minimum. Nothing is wrong with your
hardware.

Marshall
--- Jim <jnantz2@216-19-216-108.getnet.net> wrote:

> I have a P 200 with 64MB of RAM. It's running
> Slackware 9. I use it as a
> mail and ftp server. I also have a windows box
> connected to it. It has
> two ethernet cards. They both have the RTL8139
> chips. One is connected
> to the DSL modem and the other to the windows box.
>
> My ISP (getnet) and Qwest both say the modem is
> connected at 1.5Mbps. The
> problem is I'm not getting anything close to that
> speed. When I'm
> downloading something, IPtraf shows between 570
> kbits/sec and 600
> kbits/sec.
>
> That's the most downstream bandwidth I get. If I
> start a second download
> before the first one's finished, that bandwidth is
> split between the two.
>
> Any idea why I'm getting half the bandwidth I should
> be getting? Is there
> anything I can do to my linux box to improve the
> situation?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Del Boy for President.
> http://www.ofah.net
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail
> settings:
>
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>



        
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss