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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:30:35 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Michel Timmerman <m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Speed?
Message-ID:  <20001023113035.O28123@fw.wintelcom.net>
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 %2B0200
References:  <01C03CD0.7F0A00C0.m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl>

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* Michel Timmerman <m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl> [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


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