On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:43:57 +1200 Wesley Parish wrote: > Hi, all > > This afternoon I was at the St Albans Community Centre downloading some > freely > available music and other stuff, and I noticed the download speed was at > about 56 KB per second, when it usually is faster, usually about 80 KBps and > sometimes well into the 100-plus KBps. I shrugged it off as the effects of > being on a shared braodband connection. > > I come home to my dialup connection, and discover that downloading my email > from TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz is at an all-time slow. At the rate it > is downloading my email, the Universe will suffer a heat death long before it > reaches a quarter of the way. > > It appears that the St Albans broadband and my dialup may share the same > affliction. > > Am I the only one? Or is this a universal experience?
I'm on TelstraClear dsl and currently downloading a 4gb iso via ftp from a server in France. Throughput is varying between 20kb/s and 86/kb/s on a theoretical half meg bandwidth, and it's been this way since about mid-afternoon John
