From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 11:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3E437B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9NIUZn28368; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:30:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michel Timmerman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Speed? Message-ID: <20001023113035.O28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <01C03CD0.7F0A00C0.m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <01C03CD0.7F0A00C0.m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl>; from m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:02:45AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Michel Timmerman [001023 01:00] wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > > I have got a question about the connection speed with FreeBSD. I recently > installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto my Pentium II 233 system. The system is up and > running and everything seems to work fine, but when I'm at school and do a > telnet session to my FreeBSD system, which is connected to the internet via > cable modem, the connection is very, very slow. I previously used Linux > Slackware 7.1 and the connection was much faster. It probably has something > to do with some configuration settings, or so I hope it does... > > I hope you can help me out here, or else I will be forced to uninstall > FreeBSD because of the low connection speed. :( Try flipping the duplex setting on your card, see the ifconfig manpage for details. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message