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Re: Network Performance Issues.



On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:02:17 +0100
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:

> I have spent all day looking for clues as to how to debug network 
> performance issues without success.  Nobody seems to answered my 
> previous post on this subject - so I thought I would try again.
> 
> The problem I have is this.  I have a linux desktop (machine D) siting 
> on a LAN in my home.  This is  connected to a linux firewall/nat router 
> (machine S) with two ethernet cards.  One links out to the internet, 
> the other connects to the internal lan.  Connections to the internet 
> from machine D go through machine S, which acts as a NAT translation. I 
> do all the control and firewalling using IPTABLES in machine S.
> 
> Downloading a video from youtube onto Machine D's desktop I get a 
> download speed of about 7Kbytes/sec. Which is very low.  If I try to 
> download the same one by ssh'ing into mahcine S and running wget on the 
> same url, I get a download speed of 80Kbytes/sec (ie more than 10 times 
> faster).
> 
> This would normally imply a bottle neck in the network between machines 
> D and S. But if I download a similar file from machine S to machine D, 
> then I get a throughput of about 11Mbytes/sec. 
> 
> I have do idea about how to debug this and find out what the problem is.  
> Can someone here give me some clues as to what to do.
> -- 
> Alan Chandler
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
> 
> 
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If you're using Iceweasel (i.e. Firefox) to download the Youtube videos then it might be the ipv6 support in Iceweasel messing you around.  Try diabling it.

Ananda



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