From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 26 11:28:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cj409896-a.reston1.va.home.com (cj409896-a.reston1.va.home.com [24.23.165.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAEF837B699 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwagner@localhost) by cj409896-a.reston1.va.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0QJRvv33230; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:27:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dawagner@vt.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:27:57 -0500 (EST) From: David Wagner X-X-Sender: To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jo=E3o=20Fernandes?= Cc: Subject: Re: Network stops working In-Reply-To: <01012616015800.01690@OpsyDopsy.net.dhis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jo=E3o Fernandes wrote: > I have a realtek 8139 and a cable modem. I use DHCP to connect to the net= work > and my /etc/dhclient.conf has nothing on it. > > My problems are: > =09The speed of my connections are way slower in FreeBSD than are > in windows; To the extent of downloading at 2 kps when in windows I > would download the same file from the same site at 70kps. Well, I have a theory, because I had somewhat similar behavior. Some cable modem + nic combinations have trouble autdetecting the line speed. Try forcing your connection to 10BaseT half duplex (which is almost guaranteed to be what the cable modem supports). Example: % ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP This managed to triple my connection speed in most cases... ______________________________________________________________________ David Wagner dawagner@vt.edu Reston, Virginia ICQ: 9963339 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message