From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 17:18:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D54537B571 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000413001829.JUYR22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@cx443070a>; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:18:29 -0700 Message-ID: <001301bfa4df$3ddb2ea0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Bhishan Hemrajani" , References: <200004122224.e3CMOWS20075@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:28:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message