We are a provider on the AFCity network and at the moment it suffers from a lot of network problems that the providers cannot really do anything about.
I believe a new private owner is going to take over the residential part of the network so we'll see what happens. I haven't been able to contact the new owner, which isn't a good sign right from the start. If we are allowed, I could provide my own bandwidth on the system and get you MUCH more than what you are getting now. I have a TON of incoming bandwidth I could put on that network, but the current restrictions are that we all have to use fiber.net crappy bandwidth on the cities FTTN residential network. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor Sharpe Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:20 PM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: Re: Evaluating Bandwidth Dennis Muhlestein wrote: > We recently moved our office to American Fork. We were set up with > AfConnect without a lot of input from anyone. Does anyone know if > they do anything weird with bandwidth limiting? Perhaps they are just > plain slow. > > We supposedly get 6 megabit up/down but I don't download anything near > that rate at most sites. > If I do a speed test at speedtest.net, I do in fact get close to their > advertised rate from the Xmission mirror in salt lake. If I then > proceed to mirrors.xmission.com and download an ISO For something, I > only get about 1 megabit. Is xmission limiting bandwidth on the > mirror? > > Anyhow, overall we are experiencing a lot of dropped connections for > downloads, dropped calls (voip phones) and our VPN gets terminated on > a frequent basis. I have yet to successfully download any file over > 100 megs. I get cut off around 50-70 megs without exception so far. > > Anyone have any thoughts or experience? I had a conversation with Kevin Blackham, when he used to work at XMission. They do or did throttle mirrors.xmission.com because if they didn't it would be abused. I don't know to what extent they throttle the bandwidth. FYI /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.6/1315 - Release Date: 3/6/2008 9:07 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.6/1315 - Release Date: 3/6/2008 9:07 AM /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
