L.D wrote:
>My first experiments [with web page I knew was horridly graphics
>intensive and a comparison d/l of 1.61 [no I haven't installed yet;
>wanted to get cable up & running which meant finally getting all the
>cabling, phone lines, power cords etc in the office/front room straight
>clean & proper after more than a year] showed that what I have said all
>along to others is true: It doesn't matter how fast the server is, or
>how fast your system is. What matters is how much traffic the server is
>dealing with at the time.
Yes of course, I left a computer downloading at school over night since the
speed was ca 1.6K/sec and it would finish at 1 or 2 in the morning.
>According to Arachne, I don't have a Local IP. Interesting ... Where
>would I check to see if there is something I don't know about? I
>couldn't find any log that had info on this connect. Just curious.
I don't know the specific answer to that, but you could use ftp.exe to
check if you always get the same IP or not. (download and install telnet.apm).
>And the info block only
>shows times for full pages. That means I have no way [short of learning
>how to use the stop watch on the free "does everything" watch I go from
>US News & World Report] of knowing how long it takes a specific file
>download. Thus I cannot say "On dial up it took 7minutes 32 seconds to
>download Arachne install package, but on cable it took ________"
In the status bar download time for the latest file is shown until you move
the mouse.
>Gotta go get the mail and some breakfast!
That reminds me, I'm late for breakfast if I want to get that file from
school before someone else uses the computer ;)
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
