Couple of additional thoughts. On Saturday, October 22, 2011 08:07:01 PM, ew wrote: > Greetings, > > A company I work with recently upgraded Time Warner Highspeed from 1.5Mb > Upload/700Kb download > > to 15Mb upload/2Mb download.
Faster upload than download? That doesn't sound right. > This was done at a bad time, because he had complaints about poor service > before the upgrade. Time Warner field tech suspected a bad card on the > node we were running from. > > I don't believe this card is fixed, so our speeds did not increase. > > I have little faith using online speed tests from sites such as DSLreports > and especialy TimeWarners internal test site. Find a big file online that will be useful to you (like, say, a Knoppix CD or some other Linux distribution), and use 'wget' to download it (preferably over FTP) and watch the network speed counter output. Choose a mirror for the download that you have tested before and know that it's got a larger upload pipe. > I performed a not-so-scientific test. I dowloaded two files (opera.exe and > Firefox.exe). I did this from the business site in question and around the > same time dowloaded > > the files at my home (also TimeWarner) using RemoteDesktop, so I could > perform the tests close in time. My residential line saw download speeds > of 1.3Mb/s while the > > business class line saw less than 400Kb/s. I say this is not scientific > mainly because I did not even verify the files came from the same mirrors > (I just clicked on the download link from each respective site). Regardless it's a data point showing something fishy is going on. There are several possible causes, but the bottom line is you're not getting anywhere remotely near the advertised download speed right now. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects
