[ale] Linksys WRT54G Very Slow

[Stephan Uphoff]

What happens if you connect with telnet to the smtp server?

telnet mail.server.com 25

I would also try to trace packets on your client .. to make sure
it does not try to reach the servers using IPv6.

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 12:52, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Yeah, but that's something I hadn't thought of.  A dig on it comes back
> pretty quick (forward or reverse).
> 
> 
> Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > Is the public IP of the WRT54G reverse DNS mapped?
> >
> > This sounds exactly like a problem I had with my old ISP
> > once (Charter .. trying to explain the problem to ``tech''
> > support was not funny).
> >
> > Mail and ftp server often do a reverse lookup that would hang the
> > connection for ca 30 seconds until the request would timeout.
> >
> > Just a shot in the dark ...
> >
> > 	Stephan
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 11:34, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> >
> >>Correction, the wait times are 28-35 seconds, rather than 5-10.  The
> >>server isn't noting anything 'odd', and I'm able to ftp to / from it and
> >>send mail from it from elsewhere without problem.  When sending mail
> >>(via thunderbird), it seems to stop at 'Connected to mail.server.com',
> >>and just hang there for a while.  It's only on sending, though.  If I
> >>send myself an email, it arrives almost immediately.
> >>
> >>Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> >>
> >>>Anyone else using the Linx WRT54G with the Satori firmware version 4.0
> >>>v2.07.1.7sv?  If so, are you having any speed problems?  The 2 things
> >>>that really seem to be suffering are sending email (5 - 10 second delay)
> >>>and ftp.
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