Lousy network performance ...

[Gayn Winters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kiffin Gish
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:16 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Lousy network performance ...
> 
> 
> I am having problems with a slow Internet DSL-connection, 
> especially while
> surfing around the web.
> 
> My service-provider claims that his network is just fine (of 
> course!) and
> that the problem is because of all the 'so-called junk' I 
> have configured on
> my home network on my side of the connection.
> 
> On my side of the adsl-modem/router I have a router which is connected
> directly to two Windows XP desktops, via a switch to two 
> FreeBSD machines
> (webserver and fileserver) and via a wireless link my combo 
> FreeBSD/Windows
> XP laptop. I have Samba running for file exchange bweteen the 
> Windows and
> FreeBSD boxes and I have port 80 opened on the 
> adsl-moden/router to allow
> access to a couple of web sites I am running.
> 
> Is there some kind of way to prove my ISP is wrong by doing a 
> trace? What
> tools are available? How can I demonstrate that the 
> bottleneck is not my
> home network but the DSL-connection?

Unplug your router, plug in a PC to the adsl-modem.  Set the PC to your
router's external IP address, DNS, and gateway.  Test the speed. (If
your ISP won't provide a speed test, Google for DSL speed test and pick
an appropriate one.)  If you got your ISP to visit you, this is what
they would do.  They won't (and shouldn't) believe anything else.  Your
web sites will be down for less than 5 minutes.

-gayn

Bristol Systems Inc.
714/532-6776
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