On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, mike wilson wrote: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Are you saying that there has to be a lot of power at both ends of the > > connection? That the computers have to "match" in some way? > > No, it just seems to me that when I access something using a high speed > connection and the site is very slow, it is probably not the fault of > the equipment at my end.
Websites can be hosted over slow connections, or there could be a overused pipe between your computer and the one that you are trying to access. This is just the nature of the beast. I upgraded my DSL bandwidth about a year ago because accessing photographs that I share out over my website was getting slow. My new DSL has the same download speed (how quickly I can download from others) but three times more upload speed (how quickly others can download from me). Most people don't run servers on their DSL lines, but it isn't that uncommon either. When you get high speed broadband it increases your maximum download, but it doesn't make everything else on the internet faster. alex
