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Old 15th February 2015
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Default über-slow Internet

I've just installed NetBSD-6.1.5 on an ASUS-K701 laptop, Ethernet card: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet. My problem is that my network connection is incredibly slow, which makes the process of installing new software very long (it took me as long as one night to install GNOME with all dependencies). Here's part of dmesg output:

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ppb2 at pci0 dev 21 function 0: vendor 0x10de product 0x0ac6 (rev. 0xb1)
ppb2: PCI Express 2.0 <Root Port of PCI-E Root Complex>
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ale0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: Attansic/Atheros L1E Ethernet
LN3A: Picked IRQ 17 with weight 0
ale0: AR8121 (L1E), ioapic0 pin 17
ale0: Ethernet address x:x:x:x:x:x
atphy0 at ale0 phy 0: L1 10/100/1000 PHY, rev. 9
atphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
Pinging seems to be working well:
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PING www.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): 48 data bytes
64 bytes from 149.20.53.86: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=226.879 ms
64 bytes from 149.20.53.86: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=226.790 ms
64 bytes from 149.20.53.86: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=226.852 ms
64 bytes from 149.20.53.86: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=226.905 ms
64 bytes from 149.20.53.86: icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=226.934 ms

----www.netbsd.org PING Statistics----
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 226.790/226.872/226.934/0.055 ms
Ping from Ubuntu 12.04 on the same machine shows practically the same speed:

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PING www.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vhosts.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): icmp_req=1 ttl=241 time=226 ms
64 bytes from vhosts.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): icmp_req=2 ttl=241 time=226 ms
64 bytes from vhosts.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): icmp_req=3 ttl=241 time=226 ms
64 bytes from vhosts.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): icmp_req=4 ttl=241 time=226 ms
64 bytes from vhosts.netbsd.org (149.20.53.86): icmp_req=5 ttl=241 time=226 ms

--- www.netbsd.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 226.506/226.757/226.953/0.166 ms
What can be the reason for this problem? Sometimes it seems to me that the download speed is OK, the problem is with delays in making a new connection.
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Can you confirm this same problem separate of downloading packages?

Are you installing binary or from source?

Off topic, how have you managed to survive using Nvidia with NetBSD? That has got to be painfully slow also.
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I do not use NetBSD, but if you're getting such high pings, then perhaps choose a mirror closer to you?

http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/
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Another thing to check: is your ethernet configured at 10 Mbps, and/or not at full duplex? What does the output of ifconfig show?
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Another thing to check: is your ethernet configured at 10 Mbps, and/or not at full duplex? What does the output of ifconfig show?
Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot to post it:

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#ifconfig ale0

ale0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	address: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
	status: active
	inet 192.168.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.x.255
	inet6 x::x:x:x:x%ale0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
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I do not use NetBSD, but if you're getting such high pings, then perhaps choose a mirror closer to you?
http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/
The slow Internet occurs not only when I retrieve packages from the official netBSD repository, but also when I just browse Internet, pages are incredibly slow to load in 80-90% cases.

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Can you confirm this same problem separate of downloading packages?

Are you installing binary or from source?
Everything installed binary, basic installation with X + lynx, firefox, emacs, Gnome and that's all I think.

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Off topic, how have you managed to survive using Nvidia with NetBSD? That has got to be painfully slow also.
Graphic regime is working fine on this installation so far, but I'd need to testdrive it properly through playing videos, for which I'd need to install video players, for which I'd need fast Internet A good question though, I'll let you know as soon as I've worked out the net issues.
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Graphic regime is working fine on this installation so far, but I'd need to testdrive it properly through playing videos, for which I'd need to install video players, for which I'd need fast Internet A good question though, I'll let you know as soon as I've worked out the net issues.
That seems to be better than I've experienced. Last time I tried on a Laptop with a Nvidia GPU, "ls" seemed to process excruciatingly slow. I thought I would be fine just using the machine to fetch pkgsrc distfiles. Things ran a little better through X, but the machine ran really hot. I ditched the endeavour and started over on an older Thinkpad.

It looks like your situation is of a different brew.
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I don't know if after 2 months you are gonna see this.

I suffered the same problem. Until I find this page:
/https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/tu...r_performance/

I am still testing with some of the values given in that page, because I think this page is a bit outdated, but in my case increasing the values of

net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216

have increased my internet speed. In fact, right now I am testing with the triple of the above mention, so far without problems.
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I don't know if after 2 months you are gonna see this.
Did you notice that the guy had 1 Gigabit controller? What tuning are you talking about? That thing should be smoking fast. What puzzled me now is the fact that his interface is listed
as

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ale0
I just logged into

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sdf:/udd/p/predrag$ uname -a
NetBSD sdf 6.1_STABLE NetBSD 6.1_STABLE (SDF6.amd64) #0: Sun Dec 21 18:11:22 UTC 2014  root@bjork:/spare/netbsd/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SDF6.amd64 amd64
and guess what

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sdf:/udd/p/predrag$ man ale
man: no entry for ale in the manual.
Also the driver should default to lower speed unless he is connected to Gigabit network.

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I don't know if after 2 months you are gonna see this.

I suffered the same problem. Until I find this page:
/https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/tu...r_performance/
Thank you! Well, the problem is still there and unfortunately your howto hasn't helped. I guess there might be an issue with the driver for Atheros cards:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd...msg030923.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd...msg007885.html
http://gnats.netbsd.org/43018
http://gnats.netbsd.org/42461

This is strange, I bought this laptop almost 5 years ago and as far as I remember, I did try a version of NetBSD (5.x) on it after the purchase, kept it for a while, then got rid of it. Anyway, I don't remember any problems with network on that installation. Shall I try 5.x now? NetBSD-5.2.3 was released just a few months ago...

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What puzzled me now is the fact that his interface is listed
as

Code:
ale0
I just logged into

Code:
sdf:/udd/p/predrag$ uname -a
NetBSD sdf 6.1_STABLE NetBSD 6.1_STABLE (SDF6.amd64) #0: Sun Dec 21 18:11:22 UTC 2014  root@bjork:/spare/netbsd/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SDF6.amd64 amd64
and guess what

Code:
sdf:/udd/p/predrag$ man ale
man: no entry for ale in the manual.
SDF is an online shell provider, so they must have stripped their system of everything that isn't directly in use. Anyway, here's the manpage you were looking for:

http://www.unix.com/man-page/netbsd/4/ALE/
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SDF is an online shell provider, so they must have stripped their system of everything that isn't directly in use. Anyway, here's the manpage you were looking for:

http://www.unix.com/man-page/netbsd/4/ALE/
IIRC They are also running on "exotic" Alpha hardware That is the only NetBSD I use day to day.
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Thank you! Well, the problem is still there and unfortunately your This is strange, I bought this laptop almost 5 years ago and as far as I remember, I did try a version of NetBSD (5.x) on it after the purchase, kept it for a while, then got rid of it. Anyway, I don't remember any problems with network on that installation. Shall I try 5.x now? NetBSD-5.2.3 was released just a few months ago...
Well well, I installed NetBSD 5.2.3 and network is working fine. Fonts are looking better as well.
I think it's about time to inform the respective NetBSD mailing list about this network issue.
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