Ed Mullen wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Surely you've got that backwards: Shouldn't it be 50 M down and 20
up?
And, please cite specific sites where your issue happens. No matter
what your ISP speeds, servers/specific sites throttle bandwidth. You
can do a speedtest.net test and see your ISP throughput but, in real
world usage, you'll never see those speeds.
I routinely get the bandwidth promised by my ISP and measured by
speedtest (49/39 just now vs. advertised 50/25). A client asked me to
download a 144 MB file the other day, it took only a minute. It wasn't
compressed, and Windows Explorer confirmed the size. Took her hours to
upload. ;-\
You're right that a slow server won't take advantage (arirang.co.kr is a
chronic offender, probably overloaded due to the ferry disaster), but
what's to keep you from pulling content from several servers at once?
Case in point (not that I'm advocating it): uTorrent and its kin.
Well, you can certainly download from multiple servers at once. But
what's that to do with throughput on a throttled server that is NOT a
torrent?
Coupla things:
1) If your ISP has no limit but the server is slow, you'll still get
slow performance and you can't blame the ISP or SeaMonkey. Not fixable.
2) If you're in a hurry to get something and your ISP's bandwidth
supports it, several small pipes deliver more content per unit of time
than one. Useful workaround for the OP if the ISP permits. Again, not
SeaMonkey's fault.
Even without using uTorrent or the like, I routinely search terminology
on Google and download several PDF hits at the same time rather than
wait for each one separately. If I need to look at a few key sentences
in each of five 50 MB files, it will take forever one at a time. This
way, I can be working on one while the others load, and playing a music
station and retrieving mail at the same time.
But mainly I was responding to your claim that "in real world usage,
you'll never see those speeds." I see them all the time.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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