Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

[Rodrigo Paes <rpaes@pobox.com>]

On 5 Nov 2006 19:48:17 -0800
"schmity" <schmity@nctv.com> wrote:

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> 
> brent@Linuxbox:~$ ping www.google.com
> PING www.l.google.com (216.239.37.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=78.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=61.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=66.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=72.6 ms
> 
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that's actually pretty good time... check out min :)

PING www.l.google.com (216.239.37.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=715 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=709 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=763 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=711 ms

do the telnet test again, but this time use the IP instead of the name, see if it is any faster

I had some issues like this, with a DSL modem, turnes out it can't handle the dns requests sent by the linux machine, you can try to set up a local dns server and see it solves the issue


[]s
rodrigo



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