from Clarence Verge:
>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
>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.
Multiply that time (140 sec) by 300 or a little more and get an estimate of how
long it would take to download a CD image?
When downloading NetBSD stuff with DOS-based scripted and nonscripted FTP, using
FTP07, I got about 5.4 KB/sec at 56K. At that speed, that image would take
about 330 sec. But then maybe the grin.hq.nasa.gov server would not be up to
full speed. I've certainly had a fair share of slow downloads.
What OS were you in with DSL, and does the DSL include PPPoE?
