From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jean-Jacques Levy , Subject: Re: airport + dhcp Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:37:28 +0100 Message-Id: <20011202203728.19331@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200112022021.VAA17589@macaron.inria.fr> References: <200112022021.VAA17589@macaron.inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >Did anybody meet speed problems when connecting an airport to a dhcp >cable tv ISP? > >The speed is then incredibly slow, inducing timeouts for pop servers >as soon as there are long messages to transfer. > >But the speed is quite normal with a real wire connexion between my >powerbook and the cable tv modem (ie without the airport), when I use >the same airport with a fixed IP adress at my office. It seems the >problem happens only when combining airport and dhcp (under linux or >macos9/10). > >I run 2.4.15-ben0 kernel on a pbg4. > >Thanks for help. I'm afraid if the problem also happens with MacOS, it's an issue with the station firmware. You'd rather report it to apple ;) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/