On 6/1/06, Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting - I found at the last CLUG meeting (Devry) I was downloading > about 1.5MBps .. Wow. > I was astonished. > Ya, well, it's DeVry, they're an educational institution, so they (now, years after I graduated, at which time they has a 64K ISDN line for the whole school) actually have a good connection. ;-)
I have Shaw, I don't have the X-treme option (I'm such a loser), and on a full out download (say, downloading a source package for a Gentoo emerge, which usually comes from a system in Oregon, which in 'net terms is just around the corner), I get a little over 600 kilobytes a second for the 5 megabit per second line I'm paying for. Simple math tells me that the top speed of my line in kilobytes a second (as opposed to megabits - they measure it that way just to sound special, not because it's useful or anything) is about 640 kilobytes a second, so ya, I'd say Shaw seems to deliver what they tell you. But Nick's right, you can only get it as fast as it's sent, so the Gentoo server in Oregon sends stuff to Calgary fast. Downloading something from someone's DSL line hosted in Bombay will exhibit bottlenecks totally unrelated to Shaw. ;-) Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
