Internet-wizard

[Gianmarco Leone]

Il giorno mer, 07/06/2006 alle 10.13 +1000, Peter Garrett ha scritto:
> On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:20:59 +0200
> Gianmarco Leone <gm_l at email.it> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > would it be simpler to add things like dialup configuration into network-manager?
> > > 
> > > sam tygier
> > > 
> > IMHO dialup is already easy to set up. I think the most problematic
> > things are ISDN and ADSL.
> 
> Easy enough to set up, yes - but for both Hoary and Breezy I needed to
> resort again to the old faithful pppconfig.
> 
> The graphical config produced download speeds of around  *4 MB/hour* (no,
> that isn't an error on my part). Switching to pppconfig immediately
> brought the speed back up to 16 -18 MB/hour.
> 
> Looking pretty and being friendly isn't quite enough...
> 
> I'm on ADSL now, so it isn't an issue for me , but it sure is for people on
> dialup. Perhaps this has been fixed in Dapper, I wouldn't know now, since I
> got DSL before upgrading.
> 
> Peter
It seems more suitable for a bug report than for a spec, anyway...

Gianmarco

 

 

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