On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
wrote:
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> As I'm sure you already know, 3% packet loss has a big effect on
> TCP speeds.  If you get packet loss when you ping the modem, rather
> than just to sites on the internet:
>

The modem doesn't seem to have an IP address so I dont know  :-(

The packet loss is while I ping sites like google.com.

But it gets fixed for longer times now. I experience packet loss
rarely now a days.


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> - try forcing to half duplex, in case the modem is misconfigured
> to 100H
>

forcing it to half-duplex creates packet loss to the tune of 20-30%
and makes the net very slow.

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> - try different cables, if you didn't already (make sure to try
> different *length* cables)
>

did that :-)

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> Please show "netstat -in" output for sk0.
>

# netstat -in sk0
Name    Mtu   Network     Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Colls
lo0     33200 <Link>                              12     0       12     0
0
lo0     33200 127/8       127.0.0.1               12     0       12     0
0
lo0     33200 ::1/128     ::1                     12     0       12     0
0
lo0     33200 fe80::%lo0/ fe80::1%lo0             12     0       12     0
0
vr0     1500  <Link>      00:11:95:c9:b3:60   249870     0   310723     0
0
vr0     1500  172.17/12   172.17.1.0          249870     0   310723     0
0
vr0     1500  fe80::%vr0/ fe80::211:95ff:fe   249870     0   310723     0
0
vr1     1500  <Link>      00:11:95:d2:d4:a7       59     0        2     0
0
vr1     1500  1xx.247.yy5 1xx.247.145.yy2         59     0        2     0
0
vr1     1500  fe80::%vr1/ fe80::211:95ff:fe       59     0        2     0
0
rl0*    1500  <Link>      00:e0:4d:06:2b:68        0     0        0     0
0
sk0     1500  <Link>      00:0f:3d:88:9e:d4   314825     0   241852     0
0
sk0     1500  1uu.181.vv. 1uu.181.20.vv       314825     0   241852     0
0
sk0     1500  fe80::%sk0/ fe80::20f:3dff:fe   314825     0   241852     0
0
enc0*   1536  <Link>                               0     0        0     0
0
pflog1  33200 <Link>                               0     0        0     0
0
pflog2  33200 <Link>                               0     0        0     0
0
pflog3  33200 <Link>                               0     0        0     0
0
pflog4  33200 <Link>                               0     0        0     0
0
pflog0  33200 <Link>                               0     0     1857     0
0

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> Perhaps the modem is faulty? could your provider exchange it to test?
>
>


They checked the modem and then said it is fine.

Thanks a lot stuart for being a big help :-)

luv

--Siju