generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
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? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
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
Re: generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
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
Re: generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:47:34 Wesley Parish wrote: I suspect, based on that minimum sample, that the problem is with the Telecom copper network. 3400kbps here at the moment - ADSL with Orcon Rob
