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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:34:16 -0500
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Woah! cdrom.com!
Message-ID:  <199602211934.OAA01317@crh.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <4gf9v8$1mfi@msunews.cl.msu.edu>

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In lists.freebsd.chat you write:

>In any case, it actually *IS* at 100Mbits now.  CRL evidently
>purchased another type of 100Mbit card for their Cisco and now we're
>frequently peaking over 10Mbits, albeit rarely.

>It seems that 600 users eat up around 10Mbits and not much more, so
>it's more a matter of "however fast you can go, we can go" now.. :-)

There has to be a bottle neck somewhere.  I have a T3 that is peaking out at
8MBit/sec, and I have a full ethernet to that T3.

And my retrieval performance is *dismal*

Retrieving boot.flp from cdrom.com is ETA at 45 MINUTES!

Here is a traceroute back to cdrom.com.

 1  michnet2.msu.edu (35.8.2.3)  4.458 ms 2.598 ms  5.284 ms
 2  35.125.0.1 (35.125.0.1)  10.828 ms  4.955 ms  5.280 ms
 3  cpe2-fddi-1.Chicago.mci.net (192.203.195.5)  5.538 ms  5.952 ms  8.002 ms
 4  border1-hssi1-0.Chicago.mci.net (204.70.24.5)  19.377 ms  145.608 ms 75.289
 5  core-fddi-0.Chicago.mci.net (204.70.2.81)  15.953 ms  11.500 ms  12.831 ms
 6  core1-hssi-2.NorthRoyalton.mci.net (204.70.1.94)  19.188 ms  21.190 ms
 7  core1-hssi-3.WestOrange.mci.net (204.70.1.102)  30.435 ms  35.809 ms
 8  core2-hssi-2.Washington.mci.net (204.70.1.106)  40.038 ms  46.752 ms
 9  borderx1-fddi-1.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.52)  37.878 ms  40.587 ms *
10  mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.102)  236.610 ms  134.524
11  mae-e-1.e0.crl.com (192.41.177.104)  50.809 ms  64.060 ms  77.006 ms
12  T1E-CRL-SFO-09-S0/0.US.CRL.NET (165.113.30.101)  172.132 ms  185.432 ms
13  F0-CRL-SFO-01-F0/0.US.CRL.NET (165.113.55.1)  144.838 ms  111.282 ms
14  wcarchive.cdrom.com (165.113.58.253)  97.066 ms * *

Waitaminute, is that an ethernet I see between MCI and CRL?

-Crh
-- 

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/



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