I'm on DSL and everything seems to be fine, but I don't download a lot of stuff.
Harry Monday, July 12, 200410:29 PMFrank Hammittfhammitt at msn.com >My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to a >dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test indicated a >reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can1t see how that it is accurate) but in >reality, all web pages are loading slowly. I feel something is afoot with >the the broadband supplier. I had a better connection in a north central >Mexico Hampton Inn last week. > >An inquiry call to Insight Broadband yielded a 26 minute wait that >terminated in me hanging up before they responded. At least I didn1t have to >listen to the inane babbling of Bob Sokoler (sp) and Terry Minor encouraging >me to sign up for more services. > >How are those of you on DSL faring? I am considering a switch. > >FH > >On 7/12/04 9:42 PM, "Bill Rising" <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > >> Hey Folks, >> >> I'm sitting here trying to learn some Good Stuff while listening to >> music from my computer at work (via the nice, old iTunes 4.0). For the >> first time I can remember, the stream is choppy enough that the music >> is interrupted every, oh, 10 seconds, max. Really *&^$)(*&^! annoying. >> >> I logged into the machine at work, and saw that it is running its usual >> processes. Nothing nasty. >> >> I went to download a file via sftp (secure file transfer protocol), and >> saw that the transfer rate was a measly 25KB/sec. It normally is >> roughly 330KB/sec. I checked again, and it was down to 15KB/sec. (B for >> Byte, not b for bit) This is really pitiful - no wonder iTunes was >> choking. >> >> I went and downloaded some game from versiontracker (something big >> enough to be able to measure the time), and found that I was getting >> about 100KB/sec. >> >> Anyone know any tricks for trying to find out where the slowdown might >> be? >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
