Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi people,
I'm having an argument with a hosting company abroad. Their mirror
server gives me full speed download (600k on my 5Mbit ADSL) while my
server there gives me half.
They say that they don't use any QoS tricks.
I have talked to their support and I heard a weird claim: their mirror
server's kernel is "optimized for long distance download".
I never heard of such a thing in my life with the Linux kernel of such
a thing..
Short answer - run a sniffer on both downloads.
Longer answer - there are some tricks you can do, some of them "legal",
others violating the TCP/IP standard, in order to handle high latency
links better. They might be referring to those.
Conclusion - run a sniffer :-)
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com
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