Hi
I have been thr. this and you can try few tricks. See if they works.
1)Monitor the speed of download and if you are using wget or so, terminate it and
restart it. This will keep the speed. This is silly thing but works. And I love kppp
for offering running monitor of line speed. Simply great.
2)Keep on pinging a site that works. That keeps the connection alive.
3)Try finding the fastest and nearest mirror using traceroute and ping. Worth of the
effort for a download more than 1 MB.
Today morning I was downloading gnucash from gnucash.org at 2.5 kb/s.(This is peek
speed..) Then I switched to ftp.krondo.com(IIRC), and it went to 4kb/s sustained. So
it helps. One great thing I learned there. I can continue a broken download from a
site to another site. My first 2 MB were from gnucash.org and next 2 MB from
ftp.krondo.com. Great. wget is simply great...
Bye
Shridhar
Suraj Kumar wrote:
> 6 kbps!!!!!!!!! Are You Joking. On my MTNL connection(33.6 kbps) even with my 56
> kbps modem I never get more than 3.2 kbps Download speed even in the morning at
> Delhi and the Download speeds gradually falls to a pathetic 0.2 kbps within
> about half an hour of downloading. Any guess why so?
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