Help! FreeBSD: 88.78 KBps, Linux: 624.95 KBps

[Thomas Sparrevohn]

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17:02:46 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Kyrre Nygård <kyrreny at broadpark.no> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > My friend is switching to Linux because FreeBSD is failing on him.
> >
> > When downloading a file from a FreeBSD box and a Linux box on the same
> > network, the FreeBSD box got 88.78 KBps whereas the Linux got 624.95
> > Kbps. I have no idea what's wrong, but my man isn't really into good
> > information design (e.g. taking something complex and making it easy),
> > so his system is a mess. Maybe some of you can help me locate where the
> > problem's at?
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> > Kyrre
> 
> Could you please show the uname -a info?
> 

It could be at his router does not understand the RFC1323 extensions -
try setting 

tcp_extensions="NO"

In rc.conf