This is not this issue, as the guy was using an FTP program, not I.E., and it was taking the same amount of time to download a song that it would if the dial-up connection was at about half of normal. It took him minutes to download a 3 to 4 MB file. I can send a file of the same size at least 5 times faster. And it really boils down to time, I was on the phone with him, while he was downloading, and one does not even have to read the numbers to know if the connection is slow. If it takes that much time to download, something is not right. Glenn Here we go again. Okay your provider tells you your speed in kilobits per seconds. This is thousands of *bits* per secondd, but most programs like IE or lynx tell you the download speed in kilobytes per second or thousands of bytes per second. There are 8 bits in a byte so deviding what the provider tells you should give you a rough estimate of how fast it *should* be assuming no overhead. We of course cannot assume no overhead, so subtract another at least ten percent for protocol overhead and I bet about 22 kilobytes per second is about right. > I am on brodband, so it should be at least 3 times that. > Unless there is some tweaking with ifconfig that needs to be done, I am > wondering if I should not expect a good transfer speed via my server. Broadband providers really do give you a fat pipe for downloading, but they usually give you very little uploading bandwidth. Thats just the way it is because of the masses who only know how to slirp down email and web pages and see the net as nothing else. HTH and sorry for the rant. - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB2B+15JK61UXLur0RAtk/AJsHIOoQXFoZikuUZ/FAAQvnYViDNQCeJg6v bLW9YjoyzwhDsSdQdFMFzBk= =7hmk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
