On October 3, 2004 02:33 pm, Jon Copeland wrote: > Has anyone here on this mailing list tried out this service? I'm > curious as to how much of a speed increase it actually is over normal > high speed internet. They say it's a 5mbit down / 1mbit up connection > but I was always under the impression that normal high speed was about > 10mbit down / +-768k up as I am able to download at about 900kbps > (actually wouldn't that be close to a 100mbit connection?) on some local > sites (such as shaw.ca itself) but on average I get 450-500kbps from > places around Alberta such as from the Bioware FTP servers. > > Now my question is this, isn't +-500kbps equal to 5mbit? The way I've > always worked it out is when I used to use 10mbit switches and when I > copied files from one machine to the other I would watch the Local Area > Connection properties and it would clearly show roughly 100k being > copied every second and with 100mbit switches it was around 1 Megabyte > per second, so that's how I've been working it out, so based on that > shouldn't 5mbit be ALOT slower and only able to reach 50k per second in > downloads / file transfers? > > If anyone has used this service would you recommend it and is it > noticeable? >
I tried it, and did see a large difference, but only when doing certain things such as bittorrenting or pulling a file off across multiple FTPs. For most applications though it was business as usual. If I'm not mistaken they use a super-low latency connection to ram more packets through faster. Cable tends to be higher latency as I understand it [and may be mistaken] which is why you get awesome speed but ping times can suck. Id imagine a gamer would appreciate the service... my .02 Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
