pivonka571
join:2005-02-03
La Crosse, KS
| reply to Doctor Olds
Re: Questions about reconnecting to ELN DSL service
Dr. Olds:
Below are Win XP data for the newly reconnected (thanks to your help) Earthlink DSL service.
The PPPOE direct to the internet setup using the DSL modem in bridge configuration, rather the UHP mode NAT Network device which would require TCP/IP on the NIC, looks nice and clean to me. These XP results are even simpler than those in Win 98.
I guess there is a trade off, where the NIC could carry the load of TCP/IP handling (if it has the brains with which to do that) and the NAT / UHP mode modem could handle the PPPOE connection, relieving the local machine of those loads.
But I am not sure that NIC's are so smart that they contribute all that much - and know of at least one company with patents on smart NIC technology that is selling the ability to offload session management onto the NIC as their business plan - the motive being that multiple session management is a large load that does not belong in the CPU environment and does belong on the NIC.
So I am pretty happy with this simple IPconfig report, and a NIC that has no protocols other than QOS packet management bound to it. And I wonder if there may be a security advantage, since the NIC / LAN TCP/IP facility would not be protected by a hardware firewall, here.
ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 322nnn
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
PPP adapter Earthlink:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 67.101.37.41
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 67.101.37.41
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 207.69.188.185
207.68.188.186
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
netstat -ano
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:1025 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4
TCP 0.0.0.0:1027 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2004
TCP 0.0.0.0:1084 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1612
TCP 67.101.37.41:1084 66.110.201.18:80 ESTABLISHED 1612
TCP 127.0.0.1:1026 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2004
TCP 127.0.0.1:1026 127.0.0.1:1027 ESTABLISHED 2004
TCP 127.0.0.1:1027 127.0.0.1:1026 ESTABLISHED 2004
PID 2004 is the Mozilla mail session
PID 1612 is the MyNetWatchman session
PID 4 is some system process I cannot identify. Wish I could.
Speed: Still not good.
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-05-21 01:27:42 EST:
753 / 105
Your download speed : 753 kbps or 94.1 KB/sec.
That is 58% worse than an average user on covad.net
Your upload speed : 105 kbps or 13.1 KB/sec.
That is 73.6% worse than an average user on covad.net
This is a Covad provisioned Earthlink DSL line, over ATT/SBC local loop, about 6 blocks from the telco switching center.
Thanks again for your help, so very much.
Jim Pivonka |
