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- From: "Albert P. Belle Isle" <belleisl@cerberus-sys.com>
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- Subject: Re: Slow ftp
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:36:52 -0500
- Organization: Cerberus Systems, Inc.
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- Erin Bennett wrote:
- >
- > Message-ID: <31635F25.4E2@DOL.net>
- > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:33:25 -0500
- > From: Erin Bennett <Erin.Bennett@DOL.net>
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- > I just bought a ext, usr v34+, and so far I am happy with it's connect
- > speed, 26.4 and once a 28.8. But my downloading has slowed way down
- > from my old modem. My old modem, an AT&T vcos, sound card/modem on same
- > board, was a 19.2 data, and 14.4 fax. When I started an FTP w/ it it
- > always stared out fast, like 1.6k at 14.4 and slowed down to around
- > 1.1k.
- >
- > With my new USR my FTP's start SLOW, likw 0.0! They then work up slowly
- > to around 1.4 or so after awhile. I would expect better than this at
- > 26.4k.
- >
- > I'm not very modem or computer lierate as I've only been doing this for
- > 3 or so months, So if possible please answer my question in A way a
- > newbie like me can understand!(:
- >
- > If anyone want to play the good guy and help me out my Email address is
- >
- > erin.bennett@dol.net
- >
- > Thanks all
-
- Erin:
-
- With an uncompressible (already compressed) file, you should be able to
- get 3.2KBytes/sec for a 28.8Kbps connection, 2.7KBytes/sec for a 24Kbps
- connection, etc. Downloading compressible files should give correspondingly
- greater effective transfer rates with V.42bis data compression.
-
- If you observe such transfer rates at some points in a download, but the
- overall average is less, that average had to have been reduced by pauses
- between TCP/IP packet transfers.
-
- If the problem was IP routing congestion on the then-available paths
- between you and the server, RTOmax time-outs by the server (waiting for
- your ACKs) would cause him to re-transmit, resulting in "unacceptable
- segments" and TCP re-synchronization pauses. (Out-of-order segments that
- took different routing paths through the Internet could cause similar
- pauses.)
-
- There's not much you can do about a busy Internet, but it sounds like you
- have other problems. Your recent upgrade to a faster (less tolerant of system or
- telephone line inadequacies) modem has probably just amplified the effect.
-
- If your machine failed to ACK because of damaged packets, you might be
- experiencing PPP frame check errors, which would also result in pauses for
- re-transmission.
-
- These could be due to com overrun errors caused by your machine's not
- servicing com port interrupts fast enough to keep up with the rate you
- promised the modem in your com port setting.
-
- They could also be due to inadvertently disabling your V.42 error
- correction, which you might not notice on a very clean phone line. (On a
- line with any amount of noise, you'd find that the error rate would swamp
- TCP/IP and that PPP would probably hang-up your connection.)
-
- Similarly, if you and the server agreed on a TCP MSS that was not less
- than the smallest IP MTU of all the routers between you (minus 40 bytes
- for headers), you'd be getting slowdown from IP packet fragmentation.
-
- If your TCP RWIN was set to more than the size of the number of TCP data
- segments that would fit in the number of IP packet buffers your Internet
- service provider allocates per dial-in port, the resulting dropped
- segments would also cause re-transmission pauses.
-
- I've put together a tutorial on tuning your WinSock for maximum speed
- (and eliminating some system configuration problems that prevent you from
- doing so) at the URL listed in my signature block (with real words substituting
- for the acronyms <g>).
-
- It also contains links to other sources of information you might find
- helpful, like John Navas' modem FAQ, Lynn Larrow's TIA/SLiRP FAQ and
- Rich Graves' Win95 NetBugs FAQ, among others.
-
- Regards,
-
- Al
-
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