Re: cable modems

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:54:15PM -0400, Eric R Cheney wrote:
> 
> Hi all.  I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the
> download speed is terribly slow under linux.  I get good download
> speeds under Windows2000 but my linux connection is just terrible in 
> comparison.  Anyone know what the story is with linux and cable modems and
> any fixes?  Any ideas about how I might configure things to improve cable
> modem speed?
> 
I've noticed that speed from a friend's cable modem through linux is very
slow.  I haven't tried it without linux in the setup though...

Have you run tcpdump and checked if the packets are being fragmented?

I can ping every 1sec, and get variations up to 150ms (50ms avg) each sec.

Mike