I have seen this before on my machine, but it has been a couple of months ago. I have no idea what I did to make the problems go away. I had it in Windows 98 as well, but with Windows that is understandable. It was only with mail that I had it -- downloading normal stuff as well.
On 20-Aug-99 Greg Baker wrote: >> I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. >> When I send a large email with attachments or upload a file it is VERY >> SLOW. Watching the traffic on something like pppload or wmppp show >> only short bursts of intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second >> pause between the upload bursts. I don't have any problems with >> dowloads. I don't set mtu or mru in the ppp config files, after the >> link is up ifconfig shows that mtu is set at 1500. My latest upload >> test via ftp gave '725473 bytes sent in 1187.13 secs (0.6 kB/s)' and a >> download test gave '725473 bytes received in 133.82 secs (5.3 kB/s)'. >> That's a factor of 8.87 speed difference between download and upload! >> >> Do I have to live with this or do I have something configured wrong. >> I am running kernel 2.2.11 and ppp 2.3.7-3. > > I've observed the same thing with a variety of different configurations. > I always blamed it on some inherent inefficieny in SMTP or sendmail or > something. > > That probably isn't the case, though. SMTP should be no more inefficient > that HTTP--the data transmission happens in more-or-less the same way. It > probably isn't sendmail's fault either since I've seen it with sendmail, > smail and exim at various ends of the connection. > > Maybe the SMTP servers at our respective ISPs are under heavy load? > > Sorry I haven't helped much, but you're at least not alone. > > Greg > /--------------------------- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586