RE: PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!
On 16-Nov-96 jhspies@ilink.nis.za wrote:
>>When I use the Linux box, my ppp-connection is becoming so slow that I have
>difficulty in handling a few email messages. I cannot think of ftp or other
>internet services.
>
>Ping produces the following results (only while using Linux. On winsock
>{windows 3.1} the average is about 232ms with no packet loss):
>
>PING ilink.nis.za (196.6.121.10): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=252 time=246.0 ms
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=252 time=562.2 ms
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=252 time=378.8 ms
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=252 time=240.4 ms
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=252 time=1009.5 ms
>...
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=15 ttl=252 time=5592.6 ms
>...
>64 bytes from 196.6.121.10: icmp_seq=31 ttl=252 time=11225.2 ms
>
>--- ilink.nis.za ping statistics ---
>43 packets transmitted, 32 packets received, 25% packet loss
>round-trip min/avg/max = 240.4/5948.1/11441.9 ms
>
>Sometimes the packet loss go up to 60%
>
>I used the same configuration for a few weeks now, but it was only the last
>few days this behaviour became a nuisance.
>
>Can it be the telephone line? Why does it work without problems on Windows 3.1
?
>
>
>Any hints?
>
>
>Johann Spies
>
I had exactly the same problems as you describe.
In my case the problem was two tty ports using the same IRQ, of some reason
Windows ignores this while Linux systems acts as you describes above.
regards,
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