Quoting John Rye <jrt...@clear.net.nz>: > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:43:57 +1200 > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > Hi, all > > > > This afternoon I was at the St Albans Community Centre downloading > some freely > > available music and other stuff, and I noticed the download speed was > at > > about 56 KB per second, when it usually is faster, usually about 80 > KBps and > > sometimes well into the 100-plus KBps. I shrugged it off as the > effects of > > being on a shared braodband connection. > > > > I come home to my dialup connection, and discover that downloading my > email > > from TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz is at an all-time slow. At the > rate it > > is downloading my email, the Universe will suffer a heat death long > before it > > reaches a quarter of the way. > > > > It appears that the St Albans broadband and my dialup may share the > same > > affliction. > > > > Am I the only one? Or is this a universal experience? > > I'm on TelstraClear dsl and currently downloading a 4gb iso via ftp from > a > server in France. > > Throughput is varying between 20kb/s and 86/kb/s on a theoretical half > meg > bandwidth, and it's been this way since about mid-afternoon > > John > So it's not just me. The St Albans connection is with xnet, and my dialup connection - in Sumner - is with TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz.
I suspect, based on that minimum sample, that the problem is with the Telecom copper network. Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
