On 12/28/05, Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@intostroy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:53:27 -0600
> Rick McCombs <rick.mccombs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tryed using the isp's dns and stoping named so there wouldn't be all
> > of that dns traffic, and started to ftp a file from ftp.netbsd.org and
> > the fastest throughput I saw was 0.8 K and usually it was around 0.76
> > K and stopped it
>
> Hi!
>
> What a speed was achieved under Slackware? Well, using NetBSD pppd will
> not guaranteed that you will have hi-speed connectivity with NetBSD.org
> site ;-) Please try to use the closest ftp/www servers to test your
> connectivity. Your ISP should be good here.

With Slackware around 4K.  In fact on the Win XP box with the sorry
winmodem it has I can get 4K from netbsd.org.

My ISP doesn't seem to have an ftp server an using  traceroute I'm
unable to find anything close to me netwise.
> Also, you may wish to run "pppstats -w 1" to see real-time ppp
> statistics. A traceroute(8) and ping(8) utilities might be also helpful
> to find narrowings.

I try that.