The Saturday 2005-05-07 at 14:23 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote: Please, trim the quoted text.
When using the fast, Pentium IV machine, with SuSE 9.1, average speed is between 1 - 2 Kbytes per second! (even less, in fact).
This is a disgrace :-//
Well, I'm happy to mention, for the record, that the issue is solved in SuSE 9.3. I wish the developers at SuSE back ports the solution to the other versions of the distro that suffered from this problem.
It's being a long, long wait...
When I have my 9.1 disk in I average about 4.5Kbytes per second but this is using a US Robotics exterior modem. It's the same in 9.2 Is it possibly just a certain modem that has this problem?
No. Mine is an external modem, of the standard serial type, hardware, V90 (3Com U.S.Robotics), that has been in faithfull use since SuSE 5.3 or roundabouts; for me, it has only failed with SuSE 9.1. It worked before, and it works now with 9.3, with the same hardware, and same connection files. Others have reported the same problem with very different hardware. No, it is a kernel/pppd software issue. Was. If you want to see the details, the whys, whats, etc, please refer to the original threads - I don't have the links ready, but search for: Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:58:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: [SLE] Internet connection through modem in 9.1 is slow and Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:50:58 -0500 From: Jim Sabatke Subject: [SLE] ppp0 has become slow And probably more. Notice the dates: it's an old issue. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson