From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 07:39:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B9D106566B for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:39:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BEB8FC0C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 07fa1g0030EPchoA47fq2u; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:39:50 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 07fo1g0051f6R9u8M7foB6; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:39:49 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:39:48 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:39:48 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110126073948.GF27690@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20110126064936.GA7273@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110126064936.GA7273@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Cc: Subject: Re: Could any port be sucking up bandwidth? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:39:51 -0000 On Tue 25 Jan 2011 at 22:49:40 PST Gary Kline wrote: >Guys, > >Before the 11th of January I was streaming both audio and video >streams with little to zero wait time. In other words, I could >stream about 50 minutes of audio with only a second or two of pause >time delay [[AKA congestion]]. After that date there was a steep >decline in streaming performance and I went at upgrading my server >with a vengeance to see if that fixed things. Upgrading my 700 >ports only led to other things breaking. I am wondering if anyone >else in North America has a DSL connection and has seen the kind of >degradation in performance after doing (something) to their FreeBSD >servers. > >I have around 1Mb down and 864Kb up ... according to the telco. Any >ideas will be much appreciated. This kind of random fishing expedition is unlikely to succeed. You need to take a more methodical approach to the problem. Luckily, Kris Kennaway did a presentation a while ago that teaches you the *right* way to fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfb5_uG7BCA Learn what diagnostic tools are available, where they're appropriate, and how to use them.