Re: [SLUG] Slow connection

From: Felix Boecker (3.14159265359@mad.scientist.com)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 08:25:09 EDT


good idea, but ifconfig appears to be ok:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:59:A9:C0:AA
           inet addr:10.231.192.172 Bcast:255.255.255.255
Mask:255.255.240.0
           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:3240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:109 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:696817 (680.4 Kb) TX bytes:102007 (99.6 Kb)

Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Felix Boecker wrote:
>
>
>>alright, I'm having a rather bizarre problem to which I have found no
>>solution as of yet.
>>
>>when h'm at home, I connect through a broadband connection and web pages
>>load (in accordance with what anyone would expect from broadband
>>Internet) reasonably fast.
>>
>>at school, however (using the same setup), web pages load terribly slow.
>>A dial-up connection would be faster.
>
>
> Maybe your MTU is off? Try dropping the MTU at school.
>
> Check ifconfig's output, specifically the "error" count:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:AF:1F:A3
> inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>
>> RX packets:20117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:23476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:7620401 (7.2 Mb) TX bytes:10373420 (9.8 Mb)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xb000
>
> Maybe that'll provide a hint?
>
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