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Re: Some sites are just slow....



On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> >  said he usually gets 3kb/sec when connecting and transferring.
> >   I hardly get 3kb/sec ever, even when transferring to/from the local 
> >  machine (the ISP machine).
> One difference could be line quality.  I have a 14.4 modem at home.  I
> can connect to the office modem at 14.4 without problems.  However,

I belive you are trying to run the connection while running an X server 
and all the goodies... well, the kernel has to deal with all the things, 
while in low memory, and I suppose the TCP handshake is a little delayed 
(ack packets). another problem MAY be a slow connection as Harvey 
sugests, but this you can tell yourself according to the connect string, 
or the front dislay if you have a Supra, Dynamode or whatever modem that 
has external indication.

at any rate... last stable kernel is 1.3.58, and in fact, since the TCP 
sources were split, there was a stability problem with sockets and other 
parts of the IP in the kernel, so either upgrade to 67 or later (MIGHT be 
ok) or downgrade to 58.

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