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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:15:58 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        "Jan Hudak" <jhudak@cscare.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp download from FreeBSD box 
Message-ID:  <27530.943874158@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:52:18 %2B0100." <006f01bf3869$7917fd00$0301a8c0@jhudak.my.domain> 

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On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:52:18 +0100, "Jan Hudak" wrote:

> Couple of hours ago I've downloaded 8MB file over the Internet (I use
> FreeBSD box as an inet gateway) Download time: 18 minutes over ISDN. But
> when I tried to copy it on the laptop using standard win95 ftp client, it
> was even slower than that - 24 minutes.

Were you copying it from your FreeBSD gateway onto your Win95 box?  If
so, you need to find out how busy your local ether is at the time of the
copy.

To do that, you can use a utility like trafshow (in the net category of
the ports tree, see http://www.freebsd.org/ports/) to show you what's
happening on your network.  Be sure to tell trafshow which interface to
look at with the -i option.

You should probably also consider what work your Win95 box is doing at
the time of the transfer.  I'm pretty sure Quake, for example, would
slow your transfers down. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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