Hello Geoffrey, On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:51:08 +0200 geoffrey mendelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > [1] - When I talked about it with a support persons of my ISP, they > > said it's a > > known and deliberate issue and that I should pay extra for the > > "Gamer's Package" > > to get priority for international traffic. > > > It's not a deliberate attempt to screw you, or prevent you doing your > good work, or closet support of Microsoft. It's their best guess > attempt at equally sharing a scarce resource (international bandwidth) > among all of their users. > Well, I know that I can download from http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ in the full download speed, and that I can also download more quickly by opening several connections (using https://sourceforge.net/projects/prozilla/ ). So it seems a bit suspicious. I also recall that download speed from abroad was better about two years ago. > Paying for a gamer's package won't help much, depending upon the ISP, > most of them give you better INTERACTIVE performance at the cost of > poorer downloads, etc. I see. > > My advice to you is to schedule you work so that uploads and downloads > are done at off hours. 012's off hours are around 3am to 3pm, for > example. One day, as a test, I tried to see how much I could download > in a day using a 15mbit NGN line and a regular 012 account. I was able > to get over 50g (50 gigabytes) of download, 99+% during the off peak > period. Well, I need to do things when I need to do them, and need to download stuff throughout my computer working day. And when I do, it tend to sucks. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Wikipedia has a page about everything including the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink . Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
