On Friday 10 December 2004 00:14, guy keren wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > eskimo used to carry mirrors of various distributions, CPAN, etc. Some of > > these mirrors are still there, but we had problems mirroring them lately, > > because the downloading rate is so bad. As this dump of wget and rsync > > commands can demonstrate: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/bugs/Eskimo-Rsync-Timings.txt > > > > I can get much better download rate downloading from my home ADSL machine > > connected to Bezeqint, than from eskimo which is connected by Ethernet to > > Actcom's network. > > > > So the questions are: > > > > 1. Is anyone who is connected to Actcom also experiencing such poor > > performance? > > i see you made these tests at noon (15:30 - 16:30) - on what day of the > week?
I did it at the day I sent this E-mail - Thursday. > > i usually do my downloads in the evenings/late at night (connected to > actcom via ADSL) and get quite higher rates (thought i _think_ that an > http download i tried now of the mandrake iso you mentioned, which gave me > 150KB/sec, was from actcom's proxy). Here are the late-at-night download rates: http://www.shlomifish.org/bugs/Eskimo-Rsync-Late-at-night-Timings.txt It seems that the situation still holds at this hour. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Knuth is not God! It took him two days to build the Roman Empire. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
