I have recently setup coyote linux as a dial up gateway at my office and everything seems to be running fine except one small problem.
It seems that the windows boxes (win95 and NT) behind the router are experiencing uploads speeds that are rather slow. The upload speeds tend to be 7 to 8 times slower then the download speeds. I have checked various speed testing sites like and ran there tests about 50 times apiece run the tests at my networks peak and off peak usage and the results, on average indicate the differences.
Coyote lives in p-75 with 32 mb of ram and seems to function properly. It connects to the internet via an external modem (hayes 28.8). The download speeds are remarkable fast even when there are 7 users all sufering the web and downloading files simultaneously. But the upload speeds are terrible.
Unfortunately I can not test the upload speeds from coyote as there are no tools provided to do so since it is a single floppy distribution.
I was in contact with one of the authors of the O/S and he indicated that coyote was most likely not the cause.
I am wondering, could it be the modem? Some weird setting in windows? a network problem? or something that has escaped my attention?
BTW, the ISP swears it is not there fault.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Troy Williams B.Eng.
fenris@hotmail.com
It seems that the windows boxes (win95 and NT) behind the router are experiencing uploads speeds that are rather slow. The upload speeds tend to be 7 to 8 times slower then the download speeds. I have checked various speed testing sites like and ran there tests about 50 times apiece run the tests at my networks peak and off peak usage and the results, on average indicate the differences.
Coyote lives in p-75 with 32 mb of ram and seems to function properly. It connects to the internet via an external modem (hayes 28.8). The download speeds are remarkable fast even when there are 7 users all sufering the web and downloading files simultaneously. But the upload speeds are terrible.
Unfortunately I can not test the upload speeds from coyote as there are no tools provided to do so since it is a single floppy distribution.
I was in contact with one of the authors of the O/S and he indicated that coyote was most likely not the cause.
I am wondering, could it be the modem? Some weird setting in windows? a network problem? or something that has escaped my attention?
BTW, the ISP swears it is not there fault.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Troy Williams B.Eng.
fenris@hotmail.com
