From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 16:24:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD9737B496 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from C86had@pacbell.net) Received: from WIN95.chad.org ([63.200.125.177]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GH9000OMD0CAD@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:24:07 -0700 From: Chad Hanamaikai Subject: Re: Network throughput To: David Johnson , Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <007d01c11885$912dcf20$0401a8c0@chad.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <000501c117ed$e75ffc80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <01072822531000.31045@weathertop.home> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I first got my DSL from pacbell for about 3 weeks I was able to send well over 50k/s but then after that 3 weeks i hardly can send over 15k/s and its been like that for a year? My house is about 40 years old and i live about a 2 minute walk down the hill to the pacbell building. there anyway i can check if its lines between me and them or what? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Johnson" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" ; Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Network throughput > On Saturday 28 July 2001 10:18 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Anyway, what I hope that you draw from all this is that DSL is not a > > rock-solid circuit delivery mechanism and that the last 30 feet of wire > > inside the house can kill the circuit as surely as a bridge tap or load > > coil in the Telco section of the circuit. > > Thanks for the laughs! > > From my location and proximity to the telco, I should be getting double the > DSL speeds I currently receive. But I never complain. I may be dense on a lot > of topics, but when my phone lines are thirty years old, run 200 feet from > the MPOE to my apartment wall, and then twenty feet from an ancient 4-prong > jack to a modern jack, and then another ten feet to my computer, I figure I'm > getting awesome speeds! > > If I wasn't so lazy and knew what I was doing, I'd replace that old 4-prong > and eliminate ten feet of line. > > -- > David Johnson > ___________________ > http://www.usermode.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message