Why is WWW so slow????

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> John == John Wilkinson <john.wilkinson [at] soton.sc.philips.com> writes:

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

John> On Windows all is OK and pretty fast.

If Windows and Linux really are different in this respect, it could be
because many ISPs are optimized for dumb Winmodem clients which don't
do protocol compression. Try disabling the various compression
options (especially VJ header) in your PPP setup.

Sorry, I don't do KPPP, maybe somebody else can tell you how you
actually do that. I'd tell you how to edit the /etc/ppp/options file,
but you'd probably end up confusing KPPP.

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

Usually the modem connect dialog shows up in one or more of
/var/log/pppd, /var/log/daemon, /var/log/messages, or /var/log/syslog.
Try `fgrep -i connect /var/log/*'. You may need to be root to look at
those files (security; because there are often passwords in them).

It might also show up in `ifconfig ppp0' (but I don't think so, on
second thought), and there's probably a file under /proc you can
cat(1) to find out....

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