At 8:30 AM +0000 3/20/03, Nate wrote: >thanks guys. I knew I could count on such bright and light-hearted people.
Just for completeness, the Microsoft solution is to increase the speed of darkness. Nortel's is complex. There were times I thought the approach was to increase entropy, but one must remember that I was seeing it from the perspective of the corporate research lab. I think the real approach was to increase the density of management until the passage, at any speed, of useful information was impossible and thus transfer rates unaffected by subsequent changes in the environment. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:19 PM >Subject: Re: DS3 bandwidth issues [7:65790] > > >> Or he could do the file transfer to a server that is sitting on the edge >of >> a Black Hole! :-) >> >> Darrell Newcomb wrote: >> > >> > Increase the speed of light. >> > By increasing the speed of light you will increase the >> > speed of your >> > file transfer. Ask management to fund advanced research into >> > light >> > accelerators, then wait to do your transfers after light has >> > been speed up >> > by a few orders of magnitude. (This works best for >> > non-technical folks) >> > >> > or Use the turbo switch on the back of the router labeled - / >> > o or... >> > >> > Pull fiber directly from A to B >> > Help out the economy and network staff. Buy a backhoe, >> > some explosives, >> > and a fiber splice hit. Start at location A, use gps to plot a >> > direct path >> > to B(as the crow flys), point the tractor in the precise >> > direction and do >> > not deviate. Remove any buildings, reroute roads, destroy >> > gardens, but keep >> > driving in a straight line. Don't bother with regen, just stay >> > the course. >> > (Works good for technical staff who don't yet get it) >> > >> > ..........OR.................. >> > >> > ""Nate"" wrote in message >> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > We've run a bandwidth test on our DS3 with nothing connected >> > to it but a >> > > workstation (and obviously a router/pix). We went to >> > testmyspeed.com as >> > > well as dslreports.com. We both got very good bandwidth >> > tests (upward >> > 6m/s) >> > > however in transferring a 200m file to/from a workstation >> > behind the >> > > connection, we got over 30 minutes while our existing T1 got >> > 26 minutes. >> > > Anyone mind explaining this phenomenon? Just a side note, we >> > have no >> > > encryption between GRE tunnels. Thanks in advanced. >> > > >> > > -Nate >> > > >> > >> > ...... >> > Tune your tcp stack on the send side. >> > http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html >> > http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/bulk/fast/ >> > >> > Or maybe you have a real life problem or capacity shortage >> > somewhere. >> > >> > Good Luck, >> > Darrell >> > Always looking for the next big project... >> >> As in increasing the speed of light? :-) >> >> Priscilla >> >> > darrell (at) hayaitacos net Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65909&t=65790 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
