Glacial ClearWire Download

[Kent West]

I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and
the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to
just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw
even slower speeds on Xanadoo (also a wireless ISP). A Windows computer
in another room (shared through a Linksys wireless/switch ran really
slow with the Xanadoo; I'm unsure about the ClearWire. Is my problem
likely to with the ISPs, or with something internal to the local network?

(I can't say if these slow speeds are normal for ClearWire; this isn't
my house/network/computer; I do know they switched from Xanadoo to
Clearwire because they borrowed a ClearWire modem for a week and it was
SO much better than Xanadoo speeds.)

Are there some tests/diagnostics to determine if the problem is local
(malware spewing out traffic from the Windows box, congesting the local
net; flakey router; misconfigured NIC on this Debian box; etc?)?

Thanks!

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Kent


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[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:24:19PM -0500, Kent West wrote:

> I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and  
> the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to  
> just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw  
> even slower speeds on Xanadoo (also a wireless ISP). A Windows computer  
> in another room (shared through a Linksys wireless/switch ran really  
> slow with the Xanadoo; I'm unsure about the ClearWire. Is my problem  
> likely to with the ISPs, or with something internal to the local network?
>
> (I can't say if these slow speeds are normal for ClearWire; this isn't  
> my house/network/computer; I do know they switched from Xanadoo to  
> Clearwire because they borrowed a ClearWire modem for a week and it was  
> SO much better than Xanadoo speeds.)
>
> Are there some tests/diagnostics to determine if the problem is local  
> (malware spewing out traffic from the Windows box, congesting the local  
> net; flakey router; misconfigured NIC on this Debian box; etc?)?

well, how fast are file transfers from the other machines on the lan?
might be a clue.

A

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Kent West wrote:

> I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and
> the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to
> just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw
> even slower speeds on Xanadoo (also a wireless ISP). A Windows computer
> in another room (shared through a Linksys wireless/switch ran really
> slow with the Xanadoo; I'm unsure about the ClearWire. Is my problem
> likely to with the ISPs, or with something internal to the local network?
>
> (I can't say if these slow speeds are normal for ClearWire; this isn't
> my house/network/computer; I do know they switched from Xanadoo to
> Clearwire because they borrowed a ClearWire modem for a week and it was
> SO much better than Xanadoo speeds.)
>
> Are there some tests/diagnostics to determine if the problem is local
> (malware spewing out traffic from the Windows box, congesting the local
> net; flakey router; misconfigured NIC on this Debian box; etc?)?
>

I just did a Sid dist-upgrade on a dialup. I built myself a tool that
shows average download speed and it was set to max for a dialup:41 hours
610 packages.

Hugo


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