From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 19:45:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3048737BBC7 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3D2jVY23622; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200004130245.e3D2jVY23622@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200004130205.VAA70563@mailbox.mcs.net> from Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM at "Apr 12, 2000 10:05:38 pm" To: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Neill Robins , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 > > > > > ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message