Re: tlug: Slow Internet connection

[scott <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> A friend in Wales who's been playing around with RedHat 6.0, has the
> following complaint (Demon is his ISP):
> 
> >   I'm afraid the Linux - Demon connection is slow for webbrowsing. It's
> > certainly not the fault of my computer, or of Demon, with which I almost
> > always get reasonable speeds under Windows. It must be because of the
> > way I set up my ppp0 connection (& then run Netscape), or something I
> > put (or didn't put) in the kernel. 
> 

FWIW---when I installed Caldera 2.3 I got terribly slow connections--less than
1k/s .  However, under Mandrake 6.1 I'm getting very good connection, about the
same as windows
Scott
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