Glad to hear the card is working out.
> All-in-all, I was able to increase my NetPipes (a raw TCP stream =
connection)
>throughput from 9.1KB/sec to 10KB/sec by moving to the higher DTE. This=
still
>isn't the 14KB/sec FTP times my friend with a pair of Ciscos reports =
over his
>ISDN line.
Is it possible to try an FTP download from a server at your ISP?
You should get >15000 Bytes/sec.
> Maybe the Cisco is doing compression.
Maybe, but not req to see 15000 B/s.
> Maybe I have some stupid arguments to pppd.
Dunno.
> Maybe the BitSurfr isn't terribly good at saturating either link.
I think it is ok.
> Maybe the PortMaster isn't terribly good at saturating either link.
It is definitely ok -- I get 15238 B/s with a number of TAs.
> Maybe that's near the theoretical limit of an ISDN connection after =
you
>factor in the TCP overhead.
Nope. =20
> Maybe I have exposed inefficiencies in Linux's software.
Maybe. My experience has only been with Win95.
> Maybe BellSouth's switch isn't really giving me 128Kb.
Maybe. Make sure you include the BSPro command (manual not handy)
to request a 64K call. Some firmware revisions have defaulted to 56K.
> Maybe "dd" isn't efficient at spewing/slurping data (but it's good for
>counting out bytes from /dev/zeros).
Dunno. I've always used FTP downloads.
Hope this helps,
Bill