Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 09/11/13 00:44, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote:
>> I forgot to mention.
>> My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out
>> if the router is the problem with slow connection.
>> as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about
>> 15Mbps up to 25Mbps
>> upload speed is 1.5Mbps
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>What speed NIC do you have in that 486?
>
>10M? 100M? And is it running full duplex?
>
>3.7M is, IIRC, about what I'd expect from 10M half-duplex. NIC cards of
>that era were prone to getting auto-negotiation badly wrong.
>Even an old 486 should be able to deal with 100M traffic easily.
>
>Even so, I'd still not trust your cable provider's advice. There is
>still a good chance the problem really is with the cable connection.

I called shaw tech.support and we did all kind of testing, with box connected directly to the modem (by-passing the router); no difference.
So they've scheduled technician to test it, they suspect it could be a modem itself. 

-- 
Joseph