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Re: I only get a dismal 1.2 megabits/second from my ADSL

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Roberto Pavan (rpavan@home.com)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:58:45 -0700

"Harondel J. Sibble" wrote:

> On 24 Sep 99, at 16:49, Roberto Pavan wrote:
>
> > You poor bastard. I average around 300kbps on that test from my Rogers @Home
> > service. Usually, it starts high, then starts.... dropping.
>
> interesting..... I've noticed the same thing when I try to ftp an iso image
> from under windows using wsftp. It starts out at 1.3 or 1.4 Mbps (as reported
> by wsftp) and goes like that for about 10 minutes and then starts to drop for
> the next hour down to 700Kbps. OTOH, this doesn't seem occur from within
> Netscape.

Mine occurs with Netscape, under Linux or Windows, but it doesn't take 10 min.
More like 10 seconds. It starts at something like 1Mb/s, then quickly halves, then
halves again over the next 10 seconds or so. Near the end of the download, say for
the last 5 seconds, it starts increasing very quickly. There are also frequent
stalls during big downloads. It's for this reason I won't do an ftp install on
this connection, like I'd hoped I could. 

--
Your faithful narrator,
Roberto Pavan      rpavan@home.com

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of
two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
         -- Salman Rushdie, "The Moor's Last Sigh"

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