Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-24 Thread Brad
I've always used ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub/debian/ for my Debian mirror. It's fast and up to date, I routinely see speeds of 1M/s on downloads. If you are a US citizen it is partially funded with your tax dollars so why not use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Joel Rees
(Seems like I remember seeing a thread on this recently, but I don't see it in the last week's posts.) Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cut down to about a fifth normal speed. Yesterday or Saturday,

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:21:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: (Seems like I remember seeing a thread on this recently, but I don't see it in the last week's posts.) Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 12:04:55 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I don't know if any conclusions can be drawn from my anecdotes, but if you collect enough anecdotes perhaps it can help you figure out what's going wrong. Lots of conclusions can be drawn from anecdotal evidence but a proven aspect of

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cut down to about a fifth normal speed. What archive name are you using? I am in the US and use ftp.us.debian.org and when I do I am actually using

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
20.07.2013 18:59, Joe Riel kirjoitti: Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, the download network speed. My connection to work frequently gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however, its

Re: About download speed

2013-07-22 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 19:40 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: And while we are talking about community, you could help the community by quoting properly and interleaving or bottom posting. Lisi Is this the appropriate way? BTW, don't you find interesting that properly is derived from the same

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 08:59am, Joe Riel wrote: Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, the download network speed. My connection to work frequently gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however, its

Monitor network download speed

2013-07-20 Thread Joe Riel
Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, the download network speed. My connection to work frequently gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however, its display of Network History connection

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-20 Thread Klaus
currently access the raw data (i.e. download speed data)? -- Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51eacea3.6080...@gmail.com

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/20/2013 11:59 AM, Joe Riel wrote: Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, the download network speed. My connection to work frequently gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however, its

Re: About download speed

2013-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 July 2013 17:14:33 André Nunes Batista wrote: And I'm helping him to understand Debian as a community not as a software company. Or hope so. It doesn't seem to me likely that you have helped him understand that at all. And while we are talking about community, you could help the

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-20 Thread staticsafe
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 08:59:45AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote: Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, the download network speed. My connection to work frequently gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. I currently use the gnome network monitor

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 16:33 -0400, staticsafe wrote: CLI app but works in a reliable fashion. vnstat - http://humdi.net/vnstat/ Available in the Debian repositories. Seems to be a great lightweight application. Thank you, I didn't know it and test it on Arch at the moment. $ vnstat -l 0 :)

Re: About download speed

2013-07-19 Thread André Nunes Batista
And I'm helping him to understand Debian as a community not as a software company. Or hope so. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is fun and worthwhile! ---BeginMessage--- On Wednesday 10 July 2013 18:43:53

Re: About download speed

2013-07-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 July 2013 18:43:53 André Nunes Batista wrote: Please, note that this is debian user list, not debian customer service list. He's trying to be a Debian user. Seems fair enough to me. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Manoj Ghimire
Hello, Greetings from Nepal. I am Manoj Ghimire from Nepal. I am currently using Ubuntu 13.04. I wanted to switch to Debian so I tried to download the ISO file from your website. What I get is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum some times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
wanted to switch to Debian so I tried to download the ISO file from your website. What I get is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum some times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has download speed of about 100KB/s. It has cache ubuntu.ntc.net.np which happens to be hosted by NTC

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
. I am Manoj Ghimire from Nepal. I am currently using Ubuntu 13.04. I wanted to switch to Debian so I tried to download the ISO file from your website. What I get is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum some times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has download speed of about

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum some times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has download speed of about 100KB/s. It has cache ubuntu.ntc.net.np which happens to be hosted by NTC. It is the telecom provider of Nepal. Can you guys request NTC to host your distribution too??? I

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
there is no loser but everything is fun and worthwhile! -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org To: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:04:21 -0400 Subject: Re: About download speed On Wed, Jul 10

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 06:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Can apt-get be configured to use bt? Does it already, and I just haven't noticed? http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 06:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Can apt-get be configured to use bt? Does it already, and I just haven't noticed? http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent And I find this tid-bit: ISPs have

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
I have watched the speed factor improve. I'm now getting a download speed of 93.51 Mb/s. Ah, that number looks more normal. - Ensure you are selecting a server that is close to your location (whether in doubt, let the app to automatically select the best for you). The server is getting

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:29:52 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Can you please provide the results of this speed test? http://www.speedtest.net/ I get: Ping: 3 ms Download: 86.09 Mbps Upload: 9.96

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 aug 12, 14:47:46, Camaleón wrote: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s [...] - Forget wireless devices if you want to get the best numbers for your high speed connection. Good point, I get about 24+ Mbit/s (2.7 MB/s) over a 54 Mbit/s (Wireless G)

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Weaver
now getting a download speed of 93.51 Mb/s. - Ensure you are selecting a server that is close to your location (whether in doubt, let the app to automatically select the best for you). The server is getting selected by the app and it's in the city I am living in. - Run the test at regular

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other ones? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Weaver
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other ones? I tried two and the cross-comparison was fairly

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread lina
I have a little off-this-thread questions. Once I used the wget to download one file from debian repository, on another terminal I with to use the wget to get another file at the same time from the same repository. I was discouraged to do that, and was also told that, two wget downloading would

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
10 seconds to download. Now let's assume that you download two of those files at the same time. You still only have 1.0Mbit/s download speed. But now you are downloading 2.0Mbytes of data in total. Obviously the total download will take aproximately 20 seconds to download. If you ran them

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread lina
need a 1.0 Mbyte file. With no other overhead it will take aproximately 10 seconds to download. Now let's assume that you download two of those files at the same time. You still only have 1.0Mbit/s download speed. But now you are downloading 2.0Mbytes of data in total. Obviously the total

RE: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Bonno Bloksma
it will take aproximately 10 seconds to download. Now let's assume that you download two of those files at the same time. You still only have 1.0Mbit/s download speed. But now you are downloading 2.0Mbytes of data in total. Obviously the total download will take aproximately 20 seconds

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
attention on the time it takes but the download speed (KiB/MiB per second). As I said, using Oracle servers I can get up to 10 MiB/s which is the best number I have ever got. I understand also, that many can't get these speeds, but when you are paying for 100MB/s and not even getting

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Weaver
attention on the time it takes but the download speed (KiB/MiB per second). As I said, using Oracle servers I can get up to 10 MiB/s which is the best number I have ever got. I understand also, that many can't get these speeds, but when you are paying for 100MB/s and not even getting ADSL1

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: […] I understand also, that many can't get these speeds, but when you are paying for 100MB/s and

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, it's that some parts of the update process have to download a lot of small

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
with Cameleon's suggestion of downloading a larger file from Oracle's servers, at a quiet time of night, a 64 MB download (Mysql's community edition, X86_64) still takes one minute and seven seconds. Weaver, you don't have to center your attention on the time it takes but the download speed (KiB

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
with Cameleon's suggestion of downloading a larger file from Oracle's servers, at a quiet time of night, a 64 MB download (Mysql's community edition, X86_64) still takes one minute and seven seconds. Weaver, you don't have to center your attention on the time it takes but the download speed (KiB

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: Just to clarify on this situation: I have a cable connection that is rated at 100MB/s at full capacity. I specifically asked what the lowest speed would be, that I could expect to experience, when I took it on from an ADSL2+ connection that

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, it's that some parts of the update process have to download a lot of small

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-20 Thread Weaver
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.ookla.com/demo-custom.php I

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-16 Thread Weaver
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/

RE: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Weaver, What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? I want to log and then print out, so I can then forward the information with an ultimatum. I can't fail in a contract if they have, repeatedly, first. It's been going on for a year and I'm

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/15/2012 06:52 AM, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? To achieve this, you will have to load continuously your connection in order to get the max reached. - If you do this (load test) on your gateway, your poor LAN users

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:19:06AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 08/15/2012 06:52 AM, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? To achieve this, you will have to load continuously your connection in order to get the max

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.ookla.com/demo-custom.php I want

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/

Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-14 Thread Weaver
Greetings all, What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? I want to log and then print out, so I can then forward the information with an ultimatum. I can't fail in a contract if they have, repeatedly, first. It's been going on for a year and I'm sick

Re: Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
I recommend you get SDSL. They are often advertised as ADSL, but that is an incorrect name. They have a defining characteristic that the upload speed is the same as the download speed. The maximum connection I can get with my ISP on SDSL is 512kbps/512kbps, compared with 1.5Mbps/256kbps

Re: Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Serena Cantor wrote: I want to set up a server using a ADSL connection, download speed is as important as upload, is it possible change upload/download ratio of ADSL? Thanks! Asynchronous DSL cannot do that. You want some other DSL technology or cable instead. -- Paul Johnson Email

Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-14 Thread Serena Cantor
I want to set up a server using a ADSL connection, download speed is as important as upload, is it possible change upload/download ratio of ADSL? Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http

Re: Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-17 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Aube schrieb: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |3) I have 2 PCs, A and B. A downloads a file. After A's download is |completed, B downloads the same file. Will this same file downloaded |by B be retrieved from Squid (intranet speed) or from the

Re: Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Aube
Joachim Förster wrote: I would like to add: Depends on a parameter (sorry, forgot the name) that determines the max size of a (cacheable) file. If the file is larger, it won't be cached. True, there is a squid.conf parameter that will limit the size of cached files, but it defaults to no

Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-15 Thread users
I'm running Squid with its basic setup. When IE's proxy connection setting is configured to use squid, the download speed will decrease by about 10KB/s. Unchecking the 'use proxy' setting will resolve the slower download speed issue. 1) Is there any setting in IE or Squid that I can use to fine

Re: Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-15 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Squid with its basic setup. When IE's proxy connection setting is configured to use squid, the download speed will decrease by about 10KB/s. Unchecking the 'use proxy' setting will resolve the slower download speed issue. This seems odd. Is Squid

Re: limiting download speed

2003-07-30 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. My home computer (running Debian sid, kernel 2.4) is connected to a LAN and runs Apache to serve web pages and files to other computers in the LAN. Recently admins of the LAN told me to limit total download speed from my computer over http. Than means, if one person

limiting download speed

2003-07-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. My home computer (running Debian sid, kernel 2.4) is connected to a LAN and runs Apache to serve web pages and files to other computers in the LAN. Recently admins of the LAN told me to limit total download speed from my computer over http. Than means, if one person is downloading from my

Re: Download speed

1998-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
around here. The download speed was ~1.5 Kb/s (run with minicom 115200 8N1 CTS/RTS). The speed reported by BBS (CONNECT 115200) , my port settings are ttyS1 UART:16550A,port:0x02f8, IRQ 3,baud_base:115200 and initialization string ATF (factory configured). Have to dig

Re: Download speed

1998-06-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
and dialed upp the only BBS available around here. The download speed was ~1.5 Kb/s (run with minicom 115200 8N1 CTS/RTS). The speed reported by BBS (CONNECT 115200) , my port settings are ttyS1 UART:16550A,port:0x02f8, IRQ 3,baud_base:115200 and initialization string ATF (factory

Re: Download speed

1998-06-29 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi Troy Thanks for your message. Yes this is a pppd connection.I have played around with mtu and mru but ther is no bigger change. Did your second suggestion and dialed upp the only BBS available around here. The download speed was ~1.5 Kb/s (run with minicom 115200 8N1 CTS/RTS

Re: Download speed

1998-06-29 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi Andreas Thanks for your message. The modem is an external whith cables supplied whith the modem. The configuration of the modem port is: /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2:

Download speed

1998-06-19 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi all Have installed a BOCA 56K Internet Modem. When downloading from Win95 i normally get a speed of 4.5-5.2 Kb/s but with Linux (hamm) only 2.5-3.0 Kb/s. When running Win95 the RD led is glowing almost all the time. With Linux the led is often blinking and is black for longer periods 10 sec.