you must have a lot of people on your node. I get about 250KB/sec on good sites no matter which PC I'm using.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Bown Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] NIC's Hi, well the comparison method was to compare the traceroute time to the ISP server, he was getting around 8 msecs compared to my 18 msecs, the fastest download speed I've ever seen has been about 90 kb/s. Which I think for a broadband cable link is not as fast as it could be.. I wish I could download iso 's in 40 mins, it normally takes all night :( comments ? Richard On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:23, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Bown wrote: > > > I did send this in when the server was down so it looks like it got > > lost. > > > My cable connection is not as good as it could be, so called out the > > cable guys and to my horror, his win98 laptop downloaded faster than > > this machine, > > My current NIC is a realtek 8139, and I always thought a linux machine > > would floor a poxy winyuk machine. > > What NICs are known to work well , ie fast.. > > My machines all have Realtek 8139's, but not ultracheap generics. > They're made by AOpen, ALN-825, which was superceded by AON-825. I just > bought 5 AON-825's for less than $9US apiece. My 9.0 box downloads > Mandrake ISO's in less than 40 minutes each when the mirror isn't > overloaded or throttled. -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 7/10/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 7/10/2003
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