At 7:16 AM -0800 11/3/2008, billycar_G3-5 wrote: > >When I suppled this (or other) information above, publicly, did I >compromise my Mac's security?
No. Your public IP is available to all. The rest is just stuff within your ISP's public infrastructure. >I have since moved my dsl modem to a new location, taking it off a >power strip (phone line protected), and have not experienced the >speed drop. hum. Perhaps that strip was adding noise to the phone line. >Last Result: >Download Speed: 738 kbps (92.3 KB/sec transfer rate) >Upload Speed: 134 kbps (16.8 KB/sec transfer rate) > >Of course, Verizon is advertising 864/160 ... a 15% / 16% >overstatement of service. It's not an "overstatement" per se. They've set those caps in the modem and DSLAM and their network is more than able to handle the speed. It's up to you and your line's quality to do the rest. Seeing 80% of your caps, on DSL, is great! By comparison, hybrid fiber/coax networks, such as Comcast's, often provide only 40 to 60% of the caps. Pure fiber (FTTH) networks, such as Verizon FiOS, often provide 95 to 98%. Keep in mind that we're kindof stacking the deck here too. The ISP is selling you a "throughput" based on ONLY that of the first hop (aka, the last mile). That's the hop from your home to the ISP's first router. In your case, it's your copper phone line to a DSLAM box. But we're not testing just that hop! We're testing the whole connection from your computer, thru your home LAN, thru that first hop, thru the rest of your ISP's intranet, thru their gateway to someone else, hop hop hop across hill and dale hop hop hop ... into Speakeasy's network, to Speakeasy's servers. That's a LOT of added path. Oh, and the whole thing is run by a Java applet in your web browser - so we have to factor in the speed at which your computer runs Java! hop hop hop - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
