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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:45:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
To:        Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@mcs.net>
Cc:        Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200004130245.e3D2jVY23622@cytosine.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <200004130205.VAA70563@mailbox.mcs.net> from Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM at "Apr 12, 2000 10:05:38 pm"

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Do you know what might be the cause of these slow speeds at times?
Because I usually go around 250kbytes/sec on the average. And
if I'm lucky I can get up to 500kbytes/sec.

--bhishan

> Netscape and IE have report upwards of ~750-835KB/sec pulling
> adcritic.com.  I've seen 11.5 meg Quicktime clips completely transfer
> to me in 23 seconds.  I've also pulled a test bmp file from RR at a
> hair over 900KB/sec.  Granted that was a year ago.  Here of late
> it'll hang around 400-600 from the net and 700 from the internal test
> server.
> 
> Though I see no speed increase or decrease when moving the cable
> modem from my FBSD 3.3 box to the Win32 box.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:49:41 -0400, Neill Robins wrote:
> 
> >300kBytes is *really* fast, 2,400,000 kbits/sec.
> >
> >I only see 800 Kbits MAX on the cable system (roadrunner), and that
> >is quick.  Although, whatever is in the 'Saving Location' of Netscape
> >and IE in Windows are in KiloBytes, and mine hang around 60KB.
> >
> >-- 
> >Best regards,
> >Neill
> >freebsd@nc.rr.com
> >
> 
> 
> Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM -  tforrest@mcs.net
> http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest
> And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom:
> Windows: A solution to a problem which never existed.
> 
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> 
> 
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