Re: Solved - Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-04-01 Thread Paul Chau
This is a follow up to my previous problem since i have not given up. I tried to download file to /dosa mounted on /dev/fd0. The result was as good as downloading to /dev/hdc1 ( so floppy can do better than my /dev/hda ?? of course i do not believe it). After a few days, I started to think about

Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-14 Thread Paul Chau
Thank you John, Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except when i tried: chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 ) tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i can download it

Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-12 Thread John T. Larkin
> I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my > download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be care

Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-12 Thread Paul Chau
Hi, I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. After an ftp session, ifconfig tells me that ppp0 has 'n' rx errors and 'n' dropped where n can be 5, 6 or 7 etc ( the bigger the file download the larger n i