On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:24:19PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and > the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to > just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw > even slower speeds on Xanadoo (also a wireless ISP). A Windows computer > in another room (shared through a Linksys wireless/switch ran really > slow with the Xanadoo; I'm unsure about the ClearWire. Is my problem > likely to with the ISPs, or with something internal to the local network? > > (I can't say if these slow speeds are normal for ClearWire; this isn't > my house/network/computer; I do know they switched from Xanadoo to > Clearwire because they borrowed a ClearWire modem for a week and it was > SO much better than Xanadoo speeds.) > > Are there some tests/diagnostics to determine if the problem is local > (malware spewing out traffic from the Windows box, congesting the local > net; flakey router; misconfigured NIC on this Debian box; etc?)? well, how fast are file transfers from the other machines on the lan? might be a clue. A
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