Q re networking, might need guru

[Gene Heskett]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Greetings; I'm still have one hell of a time with programs like skype 
>> or ekiga, where the incoming sound is chopped up and repeated in a 
>> long long echo that sounds like a stutterer after the 200th cup of 
>> coffee for the day. And its intermittent, I used skypeOUT this morning 
>> for about 10 minutes and it worked flawlessly for about 9, then it 
>> started this stuttering and eventually hung the connection up without 
>> my assistance. Looking at some traffic with tethereal (no thats not a 
>> typo, I asked yum to install ethereal and thats what I got) I note 
>> that it has to 'reassemble' the 'PDU' of the majority of the traffic 
>> flowing over wlan0. Now, I'm not familiar with a 'PDU', so I have no 
>> idea if this is related to an MTU miss-match or what. As this may have 
>> something to do with my skype/ekiga problems, is there anything I can 
>> adjust to alleviate this possibly erronious condition?
>> -- Cheers, Gene
> 
> Gene, any chance you can run the same experiment but with a wired 
> network connection and not a laptop?  My workstation plays music just 
> fine but my laptop behaves as you described when using either a wireless 
> LAN connection or a hardwire.  The laptop plays music from either the 
> hard disk or from a network share (NFS over wireless) without a problem 
> but any attempt to listen to internet radio on it is pretty hopeless.  
> The laptop should have more than enough resources (1GB ram, Athlon64 
> 2200+ CPU) but all I see are "congestion" warnings and what little sound 
> I get is all stuttery.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
I'd love to Dave, but no wired connection available.

-- 
Cheers, Gene