PPPoE Configuration

Hello,

I'm connecting to the internet threw a WPA (version 1) connection to a
wireless router, and then threw PPPoE.

I ran a speed test on this computer as well as the other other computers
which use this connection (using windows) and the connection on the
windows machines was significantly faster as the connection on this
machine (debian lenny).

Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?

Thanks,
jhs

stuckey wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?


I would try ubuntu, for latest drivers and such ...

Lenny is 3? year old??
He can walk, not run.
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user wrote:
> stuckey wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?
>
>
> I would try ubuntu, for latest drivers and such ...
>
> Lenny is 3? year old??
> He can walk, not run.

Lenny hasn't gone stable yet, so technically, he's 0.

jhs

stuckey <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Hello,

>I'm connecting to the internet threw a WPA (version 1) connection to a
>wireless router, and then threw PPPoE.
threw= past tense of the very throw
through=by means of, via.

PPPoE? Is it a modem? What do you mean?


>I ran a speed test on this computer as well as the other other computers
>which use this connection (using windows) and the connection on the
>windows machines was significantly faster as the connection on this
>machine (debian lenny).

What speed test? Exactly how did you meansure the speed.


>Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?

Unruh wrote:
> stuckey <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>
>> I'm connecting to the internet threw a WPA (version 1) connection to a
>> wireless router, and then threw PPPoE.
> threw= past tense of the very throw
> through=by means of, via.
>
> PPPoE? Is it a modem? What do you mean?
>
>
>> I ran a speed test on this computer as well as the other other computers
>> which use this connection (using windows) and the connection on the
>> windows machines was significantly faster as the connection on this
>> machine (debian lenny).
>
> What speed test? Exactly how did you meansure the speed.
>
>
>> Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?
>
>

Thanks for the reply.

I measured the speed using "www.speedtest.net", with the two computers
both connected via wireless. The two computers were in the approximately
the same location during the test.

(Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet) is what PPPoE stands for but I'm
not really sure what it is. I can tell you that I ran the program
"pppoeconf" and gave it a user name and password supplied to me by my ISP.

jhs

Em Domingo, 18 de Janeiro de 2009 21:01, stuckey escreveu:

> Unruh wrote:
>> stuckey <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> I'm connecting to the internet threw a WPA (version 1) connection to a
>>> wireless router, and then threw PPPoE.
>> threw= past tense of the very throw
>> through=by means of, via.
>>
>> PPPoE? Is it a modem? What do you mean?
>>
>>
>>> I ran a speed test on this computer as well as the other other computers
>>> which use this connection (using windows) and the connection on the
>>> windows machines was significantly faster as the connection on this
>>> machine (debian lenny).
>>
>> What speed test? Exactly how did you meansure the speed.
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be?
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I measured the speed using "www.speedtest.net", with the two computers
> both connected via wireless. The two computers were in the approximately
> the same location during the test.
>
> (Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet) is what PPPoE stands for but I'm
> not really sure what it is. I can tell you that I ran the program
> "pppoeconf" and gave it a user name and password supplied to me by my ISP.
>
> jhs
PPPoE is ADSL.
if you really are connected to a router you shouldn't configure pppoe
settings, just lan or wlan settings.
pppoe is just between your router and your isp, and it looks like you've
setup a ppp connection in tunnel without been needed.

stuckey wrote:

> I measured the speed using "www.speedtest.net", with the two computers
> both connected via wireless. The two computers were in the approximately
> the same location during the test.

Two computers with identical hardware configuration?
How "approximately in the same location" within the WLAN-cloud?
One with a Linux and one with Billies Toys? What Versions?
Did these machines at least both run simultaneously?
Did you perform the same speed test after swapping OSes on both machines to
exclude hardware differences?

No?

Even with identical hardware in both machines everybody can fake results by
tuning the preferred and de-tuning the unwanted in BIOS ...

So what?

Greetings from Hamburg
Torsten

Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> stuckey wrote:
>
>> I measured the speed using "www.speedtest.net", with the two computers
>> both connected via wireless. The two computers were in the approximately
>> the same location during the test.
>
> Two computers with identical hardware configuration?
> How "approximately in the same location" within the WLAN-cloud?
> One with a Linux and one with Billies Toys? What Versions?
> Did these machines at least both run simultaneously?
> Did you perform the same speed test after swapping OSes on both machines to
> exclude hardware differences?
>
> No?
>
> Even with identical hardware in both machines everybody can fake results by
> tuning the preferred and de-tuning the unwanted in BIOS ...
>
> So what?
>
> Greetings from Hamburg
> Torsten

Hallo Torsten,

The two computers do not have identical hardware configurations. The
computers were within a few feet of one another during the test. I'm not
familiar with "Billy Boys", but one did of course have Linux (Debian
Lenny). The machines ran the test consecutively, the windows machine ran
the test before the Linux machine. It isn't possible for me to swap OSes
to exclude hardware differences.

I'm not sure as to what you mean when you say "Even with identical
hardware in both machines everyone can fake results by tuning the
preferred and de-tuning the unwanted in BIOS ..."

Perhaps more information is in order. The computer I am using uses a
RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI wireless card to connect to this network
with WPA (version 1) wireless encryption; I then connect to the
internet through PPPoE. I am not using a router, the "router" I am
connecting to via WPA-1 isn't in NAT mode, it doesn't act as a router.

Please tell me if there is any other information I could provide.

Greetings from Würzburg
jhs

Em Segunda, 19 de Janeiro de 2009 09:10, stuckey escreveu:

> Perhaps more information is in order. The computer I am using uses a
> RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI wireless card to connect to this network
> with WPA (version 1) wireless encryption; I then connect to the
> internet through PPPoE. I am not using a router, the "router" I am
> connecting to via WPA-1 isn't in NAT mode, it doesn't act as a router.

if it doesn't do NAT it's not a router at all.

if you can have more than one pc connected to the internet in simultaneous,
then you have a router that does NAT.

Hello,

ArameFarpado a écrit :
>
> if it doesn't do NAT it's not a router at all.

Not necessarily. Not all routers do NAT.

> if you can have more than one pc connected to the internet in simultaneous,
> then you have a router that does NAT.

Not necessarily. You can have a router without NAT, or a simple switch
or access point.