VanLUG Email Archive
Lance Couture (couture@intergate.bc.ca)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:45:26 -0700
Under Linux I get around 3.1Mbps consistently. The fastest download I have
ever achieved was 390K/s and was still climbing when the file transfer was
done. Under Win98/NT, I would only get around 2.6Mbps, until I hacked the
registry. For day to day downloads from various sites though, my download
speed is only around 150K/s ("only"... heh! I'm bitching about that now,
even though at this time last year I was ecstatic if I was getting 6K/s from
my 56K modem... =D ).
As per my problem I briefly mentioned yesterday (or the day before, I can't
remember), does any one have any insight as to why I cannot connect to any
other ADSL machines? BCT is telling me that 1 in 400 subscribers have this
problem. They say that it is a problem with the code in their hardware, but
this has been going on since February, when I first started with the
service.
If anybody has the smallest epiphone as to why this is happening, maybe I
can pass it on these dunderheads at BCTAC. If it matters at all, I subscribe
through Internet Gateway.
Lance Couture
| > At 12:55 PM 9/24/99 -0700, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
| > >how many subscribers do you know who actually get the rated speed from
bctel
| > >anyways, better yet, how many of them haven't even tested their
connection
| > >speed?
| >
|
| I get close to 3Mbps (>300K/sec). Never see it IRL except when
| copying large amounts of stuff from the office late at night of
| course. I'm only a few blocks from my CO of course.
|
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| --
| To err is human, to purchase NT bovine.
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