FC3 with BEFSR11 Linksys router slow connection

[Bob Chiodini]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 13:54 -0500, Shawn Iverson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 18, 2005 1:44 PM Paul Howarth wrote:
> >Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> You don't need to recompile the kernel to disable ECN. To do this
> >> straight away, do:
> >> 
> >> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> >> 
> >> However, you may find that "0" is the default value of this parameter
> >> before you did this.
> >> 
> >> If not, you can make it the default by adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> >> 
> >> net.ipv4.conf.tcp_ecn = 0
> >
> >Sorry, that should have been:
> >
> >net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0
> >
> >Paul.
> >
> >-- 
> 
> This isn't good.  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn is already 0.  Now I am at
> a complete loss with this Linksys router as to what could possibly be
> happening.  There are a few posts on the Internet in various places
> discussing latency problems with the BEFSR11 and Linux, but there aren't
> any real solutions that I can find.
> 
> --
> 
> Shawn 
> 

Shawn,

Have you verified that both the router side and the PC side have the
same speed and duplex settings.  ethtool or mii-tool should help on the
PC side.

Bob...