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| 310548 | 2005-01-06 09:23:00 | Hmm ... bit of a puzzle. It must be a configuration issue somewhere. Have you tried turning off the firewall (long shot here!) - system-config-securitylevel. The supplied firewall is turned off. Instead I have Firestarter going. I have turned this off and tried uploading - no change. Have checked that the shutdown of Firestarter has flushed all iptable rules - it did. I noticed you did an upgrade from Red Hat 9 all the way to Fedora Core 3 in one hit? This will involve some large system changes, so often a fresh install is the best course of action and might solve your problem. Sorry (not an upgrade) - I kept my /home directory and formatted the others. I deleted many configuration files in my home directory and still had trouble getting things back to normal so transferred my data files to a new home directory. |
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| 310549 | 2005-01-06 09:56:00 | The only slightly out of the ordinary thing I have done is used up2date to update udev. So do you think it is worth another go at installing from scratch? I guess there does not seem to be many other options! |
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| 310550 | 2005-01-06 10:14:00 | Is it just FTP uploads? Can you upload via other ways? I'll give you ssh access to my box - If you open up Konqueror and type the following as the URL: fish://username:password@ssh.dimension.net.nz I'll PM you a username/password for my box. Basically you can test uploading it via ssh and see the speeds. My downloads are 256kbps so should be alright :) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 310551 | 2005-01-07 08:42:00 | Thanks Chill - no it is not just FTP. I can send small emails but if I attach a graphic, it takes forever and I give up. The next thing I am going to do when I get time is a quick reinstall leaving /home. FC3 seems to be a lttle flacky in my experience with modems! I recently installed a copy for a friend and the modem turned out to be a Winmodem. We removed it and installed another internal one - it also turned out to be a winmodem. So we obtained an external one - do you think I could get it to go? It queried OK but would not dial out. The contents of wxdial were missing so I put them in manually (plus lots of other time and things tried). In the end, we reinstalled and away it went first time. So I am wondering if that is my next step. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 310552 | 2005-01-09 07:32:00 | OK - I have reinstalled - there seems to be a minor improvement but the problem still exists. If I look at my kppp Statistics window I get small spikes of red (outgoing traffic) with lots of flatlines in between. Incoming traffic is normal. The best speed seems to be just as you send something then the speed just gets slower. | johnd (85) | ||
| 310553 | 2005-01-09 09:01:00 | Just noticed something. In an effort to upload some stuff, I went to our XP PC on our home LAN and tried to upload using a Windows FTP program via IP masquerading (through my Linux PC). Virtually no traffic. Disconnected and dialled out using the XP machine's modem - upload happened in the time expected. From this I conclude that either: 1. I have a faulty modem. 2. The Fedora kernel is not working properly. I will try to get a loan of an external modem to replace mine. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 310554 | 2005-01-10 02:37:00 | As always, when something isn't working as expected, ask the system . It has a file /var/log/messages, where all applications can send error, warning, or just informational, messages . Open a terminal (as root -- the messages are meant for the system administrator) and do tail -20 /var/log/messages after the ftp has been running . Or before starting the ftp, do tail -f /var/log/messages . The -20 gives the last 20 lines ; -f just gives 10 lines, then displays any massages as they come in . You will soon see if the programmes are being given reason to complain . Of course, you copuld always upgrade to RH9 and gFTP . :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 310555 | 2005-01-10 09:53:00 | Had done all that Graham - no hints really. But in the mean time FedoraForum has solved my problem (good job since I was about to chuck FC3 and try something else!). The problem is that the modem does not like the 115kbps that most people set the speed to (presumably the port speed?) - when it is set back to 56kbps upload speed reverts to normal. So simple but so long for me to sort out. Thanks to those who tried! John |
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