Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:20:01 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=F6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 as a router - poor download speed, but normal upload Message-ID: <4ACE5781.8040105@pp.dyndns.biz> In-Reply-To: <1255033407.16179.10.camel@notebook> References: <1255033407.16179.10.camel@notebook>
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.kkursor wrote: > Hello everybody! Please help me if you can. > I have a home server built on Gigabyte MiniITX motherboard with VIA C3 > 800MHz CPU and 512M RAM aboard. The server acts as a file server, > torrent downloader, router and mail and HTTP server. > I have a PPTP connection to my ISP through the integrated network card. > The network configuration is: > > [0:04] kkursor@dot.kkursor.ru ~ # ifconfig > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > 1500 > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > ether 00:19:cb:54:c6:15 > inet 192.168.0.26 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > rl1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > 1500 > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > ether 00:0f:ea:e2:cd:e0 > inet 192.168.158.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.158.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > inet 195.98.183.20 --> 172.30.96.1 netmask 0xffffffff > Opened by PID 73795 > tun1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > > rl1 is integrated network card and rl0 is an additional PCI NIC which is > inserted into the only PCI slot on the motherboard. Connection to ISP is > done over rl1 using port pptp-client. > The problem is that there is very low download speed. My ISP provides > symmetric 4Mbps line, but download speed is poor - about 1 Mbps. Upload > speed is OK. I called ISP, they asked me to connect WinXP computer and > measure speed. It was normal, therefore there is an issue in my server. > If you could point me in the right direction, it would be wonderful. > Thank you very much for your work! > > With best regards and looking forward for answer, > Kirill Sarksyan, Russian Federation Did you really saturate your upload while testing your download speed in WinXP? What you're describing is a common problem with how TCP works especially on (but not limited to) assymetric connections. I use the technique described by Daniel Hartmeier to circumvent it and can fully utilize my upload and download simultaneously. http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html /Morgan
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