From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 9 19:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACCD14D45 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 19:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA16566; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:45:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:45:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Joss Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with kppp (was: SOMEONE AUTHORITATIVE PLEASE ANSWER THIS FreeBSD Question) Message-ID: <19991010114547.A78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19991009142059.23869.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991009142059.23869.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 9 October 1999 at 7:20:59 -0700, Joss Roots wrote: > hi there, > I have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.6 and now I am running > FreeBSD-Current as of few months, -CURRENT is for people who know exactly what they're doing. The general attitude is "If you're running -CURRENT, please fix your own problems" > and I am having no problems really, but I have a constant > observation, see I'am getting really slow internet connection, > although using the same hardware, and net account and everything > else, except for the operating system, on windows 98, the connection > is much faster. Do you mean connection setup? Or latency? Or throughput? How do you measure each of these? > Since I already have great trust and admiration for the FreeBSD > project, I can assume there must be something wrong with my system > configuration. > > I am running kppp for dialup (from the KDE project), and using pppd > (Kernel), I get real slow downloads. Note that kppp is not part of FreeBSD. It's part of a port, and I personally think kppp has no reason for existing. If you need help with KDE, you need to talk to the people who wrote it. FreeBSD has two ppp implementations, both of which work fine. > So, anyone can give me some authoritative answer for this problem, > where to look, what to change and test, or how to get the connection > and downloads to be faster, please give me a hint. Dump kppp and install ppp. You'll be glad you did. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message