From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 7 18:21:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27123 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from okjunc.junction.net (okjunc.junction.net [199.166.227.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA27110 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by okjunc.junction.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA32518; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:30:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:19:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon To: Stefan Molnar cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow Network Speeds. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Stefan Molnar wrote: > Hello, I have a little problem. I am trying to setup a FreeBSD > server within my school network to handle all the mail and such. > It is connected, but I have extremly slow speeds over the network. > The machine is a P5-75 w/16MB using a 3com 509 (I think, not sure > of the model) over a UTP using Cat-5 wire and Cabletron TPRMIM-22 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What is this thing? > card. I am getting an adverage ping responce time of 500ms from > and to the server. If this is on the Ethernet, then your Ethernet segment is utterly broken. Start looking for bad equipment there. I get 150ms ping times from my FreeBSD box through a 33.6kbps PPP modem connection and around 2ms ping times on the Ethernet segment. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com