On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:00:32PM +1000, Patrick Kelso wrote:
> OK,
> I've had adsl for 24hrs now, and have the verdict of the service for you all.
>Its crap. I have tried downloads from Australia, which while faster than dialup are
>pathetic compared to optus cable (but at least I can do more than 500mb per day).
>International, there is almost no difference from 56k dialup. http is painfully slow,
>my mail still takes forever and ftp is marginal at around 7-12kps on average.
>Hopefully when all traffic is no longer routed through melbourne it might pick up.
I've been connected for the last 2 months and I'd have to say your assertions
are crap :)
Just did some quick tests.
mirror.aarnet.edu.au - And don't forget this traffic is coming from queensland from
optus through telstra via melbourne and then to my adsl link. Downloading an ISO image.
Using lftp with 1 connection - 50kBytes/s
Using lftp with 10 connections - 150kBytes/s
ftp.freesoftware.com in US - where cdrom.com moved there free stuff.
Using lftp with 1 connection - 28kBytes/s
Using lftp with 10 connections - 140kBytes/s
And these numbers where going up I just couldn't be bothered waiting around for final
values. The numbers above are the value after about 30 secs.
Now I've got a 1.5M connection. So the theoretical maximum if we ignore overhead is
192kBytes/s .
I'd say they're pretty impressive figures and there's a fair amount of overhead here
too, ATM->Ethernet->PPP->IP->TCP.
Ok that's only two sites but there 2 well connected sights so I think you
could safely say the problems your experiencing aren't ADSL related. Just normal
network congestion somewhere else along the line.
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