Modem Speeds

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sat Aug 13 05:45:25 UTC 2005


On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:23:04 +0000
"Micheal Bauerle" <michealbauerle at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to check my connection speeds in Ubuntu. I have a USR modem and in widows it connects at 50 but I can tell by my of my down loads that it has been taking an average of 5 times longer. I know in other versions of Linux it has worked fine. I have tried looking through the Ubuntu guide but have not found anything.
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Micheal:

For what it's worth, I had *very* slow downloads when I configured dialup on Ubuntu Hoary using the graphical config tools. ( Would you believe 4MB in one hour? )

When I reconfigured using the pppconfig utility, my speeds returned to normal - on average around 5kb/sec. I suggest you try running

sudo pppconfig

If you leave the "provider" label field blank, in the pppconfig setup, you can then connect using the "pon" command, and disconnect using "poff". Make sure your user is in the "dip" and "dialout" groups. You can make a launcher for "pon" to make it clickable, and so on. ( Or use gkrellm and put "pon" as your connect command in the "net" "start command " field for that app)

Hope this helps. ( I have no idea why the graphical Ubuntu tool produced such a bad connection... One hopes this will be fixed in Breezy)

Peter




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