Why is WWW so slow????

[John Wilkinson <nospam [at] soton.sc.philips.com>]

Hi all,
I have been using SUSE 6.2 for some time now. I use KPPP, with a
connection script to connect to Virgin net. however I notice that it is
so slow, sometimes down to 40bps. I have a Hayes 28K modem, and I have
set the baud rate of the port to 57600 baud, since any faster PPP fails
to initialise the modem.

The strange thing is sometimes the speed will rise to 2K maybe even 3K .

On Windows all is OK and pretty fast.

Any ideas?

I would like to be able to check out the actual connect speed of the
modem, how do I do this? I looked at setserial, but it looks so
complicated.

Regards,
John.

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