Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:33:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD Message-ID: <200004130133.e3D1XFo20746@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <001301bfa4df$3ddb2ea0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> from Jeremiah Gowdy at "Apr 12, 2000 05:28:50 pm"
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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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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