Very Computer

I use a dual boot Pentium II (HP) with 224megs ram. The 98se and the SuSE
8.0 are on separate hard drives. I connect to the net with ADSL from SBC/
Southwestern Bell. This service sucks.

For comparison I had Comcast Cable installed in order to make a comparison
of the two systems.The cable modem is a Motorola SB4100 "surfboard."  
Comcast wins due to the fact that it is twice as fast and reliable.

The problem that I have not been able to solve is this. As long as I am on
the Win98se side of my machine using cable, it averages downloads speeds in
excess of 1.0Mbs. However, when I reboot to the SuSE 8.0 system the download
slows to less than my 56K dialup connection.

Is there anything that I can do to get this cable service up to speed in
Linux?

TIA,

Tom

Well there's a couple of possibilities,  first try reducing the MTU size

ifconfig <external interface> mtu 576

see if the transfer speed changes.

also try running mii-tool -v on the ethernet card connecting to the
modem, might be a dusplex mismatch. Check the ifconfig output and
any unusal messages appearing in /var/log/messages.

karl.

The mtu change didn't make any differences. Neither did mii-tool, which
returned an error message: 'Operation not supported.'

Another symptom I've noticed is that the connection is promptly established,
and then promptly stalls.

Thanks for your help,

Tom

The MTU test shows it not a packet fragmentation issue, the mii-tool
indicates that we cannot get info from the driver about it's status.
Can you check the end of /var/log/messages or the dmesg output relating
to the ethernet card.  Also Check the ifconfig output.

Quote:> Another symptom I've noticed is that the connection is promptly established,
> and then promptly stalls.

check the above first and if that doesn't yeild anything then run a
tcpdump -o output -n -i ppp0/ethN (whatever your using externally) and
transfer some data. Email the output file.

karl.