Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:00:50 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl speed test Message-ID: <393874E2.2711A80E@3-cities.com> References: <200006030228.TAA21255@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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Mark Smith wrote: > > 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??? When the need for speed exceeds the other toys. So far I find that many of the connections would be a hurry up and wait. I basically have cat 5 cable all of the way from Ruby to the GTE box on the outside of the house. Adding DSL wouldn't be that much of a deal. You in school are is Boss screwed up again :). Chatter's was at Victor's tonight. There were a few comments about KM. I'm thinking about converting the HP-1120 and opal to printing postscrip with FreeBSD. I think that will be the next effort. Time to read about ghostscript and printcap filters. Have you installed 4.0 yet? After getting me involved with FreeBSD you seem to be running slow at times. Getting the degree has the necessary precedence. I never thought my involement would be this high. I don't know whether to thank you are not. It has been a lot more fun :). Cheers, Kent > > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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