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.