Maybe not!!!
But you were making a claim about what *servers* could dish out, not
what you could receive, and your information was inaccurate in that
regard.
I can assure that many servers can dish it out 10 times that fast; I'm
lucky enough to be able to get it 10 times that fast (RoadRunner @
1.2M-bits, 140K-bytes), so I know whereof I speak.
I feel certain that if I were on a backbone-connected machine talking to
a backbone-connected server I could get nearly a couple more orders of
magnitude over 15k/second.
(Indeed, like you, my limiting factor isn't really the connection to my
house; I can get 1.6M on that pipeline, but the RR pipeline to the
backbone seems to be only about 1.2M on average since that's the highest
I've seen. But this is a limitation of the ISP's pipeline, not of the
servers on the other end of the pipeline.)
Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> This has been my experiance. Maybe you don't live at my house!! Maybe you
> don't use my ISP!!
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ptah
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
> start
>
> Bill Shirley wrote:
> >
> > I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
>
> > I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum through-put I have seen on it is
> > about 15K per second. Few servers will actually dish out a download that
> > fast!
>
> What are you smoking? few servers with dish out 15k a second? Give me
> a
> break.
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