Re: download speeds via linux

[Shanu <shanu@xxxxxxxx>]

Rutvik Doshi wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I have a dual boot ( win95 and RH 5.2 ) pentium MMX 200 MHz machine and a
> 33.6 kbps GVC external modem. My problem is that the download speeds i get
> when i connect to the net via linux differ highly from that of
> windoze....While surfing the net thru win95 i get connection speeds of 1.5K
> bytes/sec to 2.5 Kbytes/sec ( as indicated in the status bar of netscape
> navigator..) and from linux it is somewhere in the range of 100 bytes/sec to
> 1K bytes / sec . I can also feel the slowness involved in Linux. How do i
> increase this speed .. is it something to do with my MTU settings ( it is set
> at 1500 ) or something else. Please help
> 
> thanks in adavance
> rutvik

	It is the serial port which is causing the problem. The DTE speed must
be set at 9600 bps(default) presently. U should increase this to
115200bps by using the setserial command. Try this...

	$ setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi

	This will set the DTE rate to 115200. u can also use the argument
spd_hi which will set it to 57600bps. Substitute /dev/ttyS1 with ur
port.

	U can make the changes permanent by adding it to the setserial script.
In debian it is the file /etc/rc.boot/0setserial which does the port
initialization.

	Hope this helps.

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  Shanker Balan                                 Debian/GNU Linux 2.1
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