john <john@no.spam> writes: >Hi, I am using Linux at home, ADSL ~16 Mbps/~1 Mbps Internet connection Why do you think that those are the speeds you are getting? Is that what the people selling the adsl to you claim, or speeds you have actually measured. >and my ping time to my ISP is 160-170 msec. >When downloading something with Firefox, I am getting download speeds of >about 100-180 KB/sec (for example when downloading SP2 of XP from MS >server). That sounds more like 1-2 Mb/s donload. >Are the Linux networking settings OK for this kind of latency, or do I >have to change some settings? They are fine AFAIK. I have a 2Mb adls, and I get your kinds of speed. My son has a 6Mb/s ADSL and he gets downloads of 500-600KB/s as you would expect. In his case his adsl modem reports that the connection is 5-6Mb/s as well. All of this is using the stock Mandriva 2007.1, no changes or tweaks. >Thanks in advance.

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:43:54 +0200, john <john@no.spam> wrote: >Hi, I am using Linux at home, ADSL ~16 Mbps/~1 Mbps Internet connection >and my ping time to my ISP is 160-170 msec. >When downloading something with Firefox, I am getting download speeds of >about 100-180 KB/sec (for example when downloading SP2 of XP from MS >server). >Are the Linux networking settings OK for this kind of latency, or do I >have to change some settings? There's is nothing to set, nothing to optimize. Your connection is primarily limited by the fact that microsoft a while back decided to use their own OS for their web servers. Try speedtest.net and/or kernel.org for a better test.