From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 19:28:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.tricity.wsu.edu (beta.tricity.wsu.edu [192.31.216.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC27E37BA11 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by beta.tricity.wsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA21255 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:28:29 -0700 From: Mark Smith Message-Id: <200006030228.TAA21255@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Subject: Re: dsl speed test To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:28:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <39382919.E91821E1@3-cities.com> from "Kent Stewart" at Jun 02, 2000 02:37:29 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] 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 Actually, that's GTE's carrier part. The ISP doesn't have anything to do with how fast the line goes (other than how fast they can/will feed it). So, Kent, when are you getting DSL??? > The local ISP's provide a DSL Bronze+ connection that they claim is > 768kb/s. I've been told this is an adaptive setup and you won't see it > until you download a large file. A file transfer starts out slow and > moves up as the need continues. There has to be some file that you > need that is large enough to gauge what you eventual throughput is. I > like ws-ftp-pro because it lists the current rate during the download > but I only have that on my W2K machine. The problem would be finding a > source with no activity so that you aren't competing with a number of > people for a limited resource. With the right choice here, you may > still end up seeing 768kb/s. 178kb/s is still a lot better than my > usual 48kb/s modem connection :). > > Kent Mark -- ========================================================================= UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message