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From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD
In-Reply-To: <001301bfa4df$3ddb2ea0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> from Jeremiah
 Gowdy at "Apr 12, 2000 05:28:50 pm"
To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:33:14 -0700 (PDT)
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I'm sure that I'm seeing 300kilobytes/second on the windows
machine. I double-checked that.

I used Netscape and IE to download in windows.
And I use lynx to download in FreeBSD.

--bhishan

[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > I am having a little problem with download speeds
> > in FreeBSD. I currently have cable with COX@HOME.
> > I am running my machine as a nat server in order
> > for the computer's on my network to access the
> > internet.
> >
> > However, when I download a file through nat,
> > the speed varies from where I download the file
> > directly with the cable modem.
> > When I download through nat, the speed is about
> > 15-30kb/sec. But, when I hook the cable modem
> > up to one of the windows computers I get about
> > 150-300kb/sec.
> 
> 150-300 kilobits per second = 15-30 kilobytes per second (basically)
> Windows is showing you kilobits, FreeBSD is showing you kilobytes.  Same
> speed.
> 
> 
> 



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