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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:05:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Jonathan Hilgeman <JHilgeman@ecx.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Slow/Fast Bandwidth Spurts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10111141304540.10241-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3F039@mailsvr.ecx.com>

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My guess would be that the DSL provider uses ATM for bridging and your
data flow isnt priority.

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD box at home running behind a router on a DSL connection.
> I have a Windows 2000 box running at a different location on a T1
> connection. It is also behind a firewall.
> I use SecureCRT on Windows 2000 to connect to my FreeBSD box via port 22
> (SSH1).
> For about 5-10 seconds of my session, the speed is instantaneous - no
> problems whatsoever. 
> All of a sudden, I will hit a slow-down and things I type will take 3
> seconds to echo back from the server.
> Suddenly it will be back at full speed for a few seconds.
> This cycle loops forever - it is driving me nuts. Any thoughts on this?
> 
> I know that the data is not getting filtered by firewalls or something
> because it WILL come through eventually, but the speed just randomly goes
> from fast to slow to fast to slow over and over again. No patterns that I
> can detect - I'm running Apache and MySQL but nobody knows about the box. 
> 
> Any reasons this might happen?
> 
> - Jonathan
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