Hi Clarence,
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 01:23:22 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Hi All;
> I've been using the download of this image to test my connection speed
> on DSL and it seems pretty poor to me:
> http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/GPN-2000-000938.jpg
BTW, nice pic.
> It's 1,787,955 bytes and the best time I can get on DSL is 2:20 (140 Sec).
> That's with A1.66 and Bell high speed internet connection.
> With my dial-up connection running @ 31200 I get it in 10:06 (606 Sec)
> using A1.62.
tested it with my DSL connction wich is limited to 768kb/s and got it in
about 3:40.
> Does my DSL speed suck or is this normal ? They claim up to 1.5 Mb/sec.
> I think I'm getting 130Kb/sec. :((
> I've tried 4 different NICs - 3 were 100Mbps and the above time is
> the best I could do.
yes, this seems to be normal. Of course You have a high speed connection
to the web but the other thing is that the web itself sometimes is very
slow. You won't see this with a modem but with a fast connection the
responsing times of servers and nodes will be more visible. Best speed I
got was 88 kB/s, which is near the maximum of 96 kB/s with my
connection.
> I know code red is wasting bandwidth, but surely it would have affected
> the dial-up time proportionally - and it seems normal.
Indeed, the web was very slow on saturday morning.
> - Clarence Verge
> - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
Regards Joerg
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