From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 10: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AE237B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA92175; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:23:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:05:18 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Slow/Fast Bandwidth Spurts In-Reply-To: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3F039@mailsvr.ecx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My guess would be that the DSL provider uses ATM for bridging and your data flow isnt priority. On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box at home running behind a router on a DSL connection. > I have a Windows 2000 box running at a different location on a T1 > connection. It is also behind a firewall. > I use SecureCRT on Windows 2000 to connect to my FreeBSD box via port 22 > (SSH1). > For about 5-10 seconds of my session, the speed is instantaneous - no > problems whatsoever. > All of a sudden, I will hit a slow-down and things I type will take 3 > seconds to echo back from the server. > Suddenly it will be back at full speed for a few seconds. > This cycle loops forever - it is driving me nuts. Any thoughts on this? > > I know that the data is not getting filtered by firewalls or something > because it WILL come through eventually, but the speed just randomly goes > from fast to slow to fast to slow over and over again. No patterns that I > can detect - I'm running Apache and MySQL but nobody knows about the box. > > Any reasons this might happen? > > - Jonathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message