From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 5:23:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dayab.ch (mail.dayab.ch [193.135.253.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D442137B419 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29278 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 13:20:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bturtle.ch) (193.135.253.141) by mail.dayab.ch with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 13:20:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3C161716.1C479850@bturtle.ch> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:24:22 +0000 From: "S. Aeschbacher" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; OpenBSD 3.0 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hiten Pandya Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cable modem connection problem References: <20011210193629.98528.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya wrote: > > >what kind of "mucking" could cause such kind of > >behaviour?. > > this kind of problem did occur to me several times > with NTL (http://ntl.com/) in UK... > > there were installing a Universal Shared Bandwith > Router in their CO (Central Office), after they > installed this piece of sh*t, the bandwith was > throttled from 5.00pm evening to 5.00am morning, > which was to slow down users from downloading large > files i.e. Music Sharing and such.... > > but after 5.00am, it was all fine and back to 85.0KBps > when before 5.00am and after 5.00pm was around > 12.0KBps > which is sad but was true for a while till users > complained about it... (like me)... And the problems went away when they stopped limiting the bandwidth? > so that is a possibility, or it could be that the > signal you are receiving (cable modem signal) is very > weak.... thats a possibility too... If this was the problem, it could not be solved by deleting the arp entries. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message