Were you downloading that from the ISP's own servers or from some
external site?
The connectivity *within* the internet isn't infinitely fast, there
could be a bottleneck upstream.
If not, then you are being ripped. You should be able to get better
than 3M/minute for 400K; so a 300K file should take only about six
seconds.
I have a cable modem that only promises "over 1M"; in practice I get
about 1.2M and it took me less than a minute to download Netscape 6
(10M). [Actually it gets 1.6M on the internal network, but 1.2M is the
best I've seen on the internet.]
"Bruce E. Harris" wrote:
>
> Thanks for the advice, Linux is back, firewall is working, life if good.
>
> I did get an email from my ISP telling me I am running at the max home user DSL
> speed the offer. Still, why would a 300K file take 30 sec to d/l if my speed is
> suppose to be running at over 400kps?
>
> Bruce
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > Even if you can't telnet in, you ought to be able to enter runlevel
> > > one from the LILO prompt: if you use image 'linux', type 'linux 1' at
> > > the LILO prompt. Then, look at rc.local.
> > >
> > Should also be able to type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt to
> > boot (one time) to runlevel 3.
> > John
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>
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