Re: Slow Cable Modem
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kidd, Peter wrote:
> on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's
> to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long
> pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is
> it because I have a 2.4.1 kernel running an otherwise slink installation
> (which I'm trying to dist-upgrade)?
>
FWIW, I also use @home and I see the same thing. Perhaps they've added
some infernal proxy setup which is not Linux friendly?
Another problem which is possibly related is the main Debian mirrors seem
to have gotten really overloaded of late.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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