Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-19 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:06 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > If you spend most of your time browsing the web, you can do the following > to speed things up: > 3. Limit the size of your disk cache, but note that it does limit the >size of files you can download with the browser with some br

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:04:17PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > So, what CAN I tell them? I need a smart argument, not a "well I thinkit's > slower" argument. Better yet, what can I check to PROVE thatthere is a > problem on their end? I use a Linux system as a router. Since my contract is up for

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:26:05PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > Note that this only give you *latencies* and not *bandwidth*, however > if your performance dropped significantly, it'll probably show in > the latency as well. However, bear in mind that the amount of time it takes for a TCP ack packet

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 19 בJanuary 2007 14:04, Dotan Cohen wrote: > So, what CAN I tell them? I need a smart argument, not a "well I think > it's slower" argument. Better yet, what can I check to PROVE that > there is a problem on their end? Instead of trying to prove, you can try to use simple tools that wou

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 19/01/07, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday, 19 בJanuary 2007 00:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I was thinking along the lines of log files filling up logrotate? > and dns cache files filling up. What dns cache files? AFAIK, named(8) has a memory cache only. [even if it did have dis

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 19 בJanuary 2007 00:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I was thinking along the lines of log files filling up logrotate? > and dns cache files filling up. What dns cache files? AFAIK, named(8) has a memory cache only. [even if it did have disk cache, isn't simpler to trim cache files than rein

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > As far as I know, the actual pipes leading out of Israel (fiber and > satellites) are far from being fully utilized (I no longer have up to > date figures, but I'd be surprised if int'l connectivity is at over 50% > capacity), and its ch

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:42 +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few > > weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and > > that the time had come to reinstall. >

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18/01/07, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: > That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few > weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and > that the time had come to reinstall. Care to

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:39 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Companies that are also long distance carriers split their bandwidth between > telephone and Internet service. They adjust it "on the fly" to keep the phones > working. When there are lots of calls in progress, Internet bandwidth is

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: > That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few > weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and > that the time had come to reinstall. Care to explain? How exactly does entropy build up in your di

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18/01/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's > approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service > from the company. That's a

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:22:30PM +0200, Peter wrote: > I do not agree. The bandwidth contracts cannot be cut at such short > notice. Actually, they can be cut in seconds. Commerical bandwidth contracts, as well as most private user's ones outside of Israel, are sold as two or three parts. The

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: This has probably started already, and will continue. I do not agree. The bandwidth contracts cannot be cut at such short notice. Also the problems affected everyone (3 providers) during the time I was complaining about. The problems seem to

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Micha Silver wrote: Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? I knew that. And the other two providers ? Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsub

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's > approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service > from the company. That's an interesting point, but IMHO completely wrong. You are assuming

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Micha Silver wrote: > Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? Let's not start the FUD, shall we? In "Equal Rites", by Terry Pratchett, an old witch is teaching an apprentice witch the secrets of the trade. She comes to the subject of curses. The quote goes, loosely: One

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Micha Silver
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. - yba Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. It is not just actcom, I checked 3 providers, in the country and out of it. All had problems. Maybe a backbone router died or something. Peter

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. - yba On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Peter wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:24:39 +0200 (IST) From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IGLU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Internet speed and page loading problems ?