From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 18:47:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22D137BB57 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from SATURN98 ([24.25.17.94]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:47:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:49:41 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Educational Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1909.000412@nc.rr.com> To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD In-reply-To: <200004130133.e3D1XFo20746@cytosine.dhs.org> References: <200004130133.e3D1XFo20746@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Bhishan, Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 9:33:14 PM, you wrote: BH> I'm sure that I'm seeing 300kilobytes/second on the windows BH> machine. I double-checked that. BH> I used Netscape and IE to download in windows. BH> And I use lynx to download in FreeBSD. BH> --bhishan BH> [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. >> >> >> BH> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org BH> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 300kBytes is *really* fast, 2,400,000 kbits/sec. I only see 800 Kbits MAX on the cable system (roadrunner), and that is quick. Although, whatever is in the 'Saving Location' of Netscape and IE in Windows are in KiloBytes, and mine hang around 60KB. -- Best regards, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message