[4.9-R]Can I Make My DSL Connect Go Faster ?

[Wes Peters]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 08:18, The Jetman wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Elischer" <julian at elischer.org>
> To: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms at spc.org>
> Cc: "FreeBSD Net" <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>; "The Jetman"
> <jetman at mycbc.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 17:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [4.9-R]Can I Make My DSL Connect Go Faster ?
>
> > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:29:58PM -0400, The Jetman wrote:
> > > >     I'm just confused as to why I lose SO much going thru my FBSD
> > > > box and that's essence of my question.  I can live w/ *some*
> > > > overhead for the sake of using FBSD, but this is ridiculous. 
> > > > TIA....Jet
> > >
> > > Are you using user space NAT? If so, this might account for some of
> > > the poor performance. Try reconfiguring your system to use IPFILTER,
> > > or consider updating to 5-CURRENT and trying pf(4).
> >
> > I would be surprised if that were the problem.. I've saturated
> > ethernets using natd..
> >
> > Howver  I agree that more info on the setup being used would be
> > beneficial..
>
>     Julian:  There isn't much that I can *think* to add.  If knowing
> which LAN cards I use will help, they're the usu stuf, a dc (forget which
> chip) and a Realtek.  I admit these aren't superstars, but I just slapped
> NAT box together from what was a simple workstation.  The IPFW firewall
> script is the unmodified 'open' config, that is:

None of that would have any bearing at all, unless you've horribly 
mis-configured something.  Did you have to install any special drivers on 
XP?  I'm wondering if they're using some sort of link compression to get 
the promised speed.  Also, try downloading something from one of the 
well-connected FreeBSD mirrors and see what kind of download speeds you 
get.  I may be the browser you're using or something equally stupid in the 
test you're using.  After all, what really matters is the REAL performance 
you get, not some number off of a web page, right?

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        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com