Coyote Linux performance issues

[fenris]

I have recently installed Coyote linux as a dial up router where I work as a replacement for a windows based thing!

Some of the users have been complaining about email problems with outlook 2000. I have tried different email clients and they seem to work fine, except outlook. I am wondering if there may be a problem with a setting in outlook or is there one with coyote? Also how do you tweak the performance of coyote?

Another question I have, is coyote capable of detailed usage statistics?

[MkIII_Supra]

Sounds like typical MS software not wanting to play nice with other software. If other e-mail clients are functioning just fine but lookout isn't that pretty much leads you to one conclussion.....

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[fenris]

I tried eudora and it doesn't stall but it takes a long time to upload emails (ones with attachments of 300k +). I went to a few speed testing sites and they rate the download speed at about ten times that of the upload speed (on average of about 25 tries). When I disconnect my computer from the network and dial it in, it gets a roughly 1 to 1 upload to download ratio, on average.

I realize that the connection is shared, but even so, a persons uploads should be pretty close to the downloads (?).

I am wondering if there is a setting, something like a transmit buffer size or number of transmit buffers that could be set in order to increase performance.

I suspect that coyote, by default is set to optimize download speeds which it sure has. Is there a way to balance the upload and download rate of the shared connection. I suspect this would be relevant to all linux users on a shared connection.

Thanks...