Goethe wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: >> The speed of an internet connection is not just to do with how fast it >> is at the ends, but also how fast it is in the middle, which tends to >> depend more on politics between the various companies involved in the >> Internet than any good technical reasons. > > Yeah, work building is a government scientific lab with some high-end > computing facilities so has been on big networks a long time... I'm not > surprised the post-building route is entirely different than it is from my > house 1-2 miles away (office might even route things through high-speed > centers in Boulder or somewhere for all I know). It *is* odd that Murphy's > site is the only one I've ever, ever noticed such a substantial difference > in the faster-at-home direction, otherwise the lab is faster for everything > I've noticed. Maybe you've been committing treason and are being filtered > by IntSec, Murph-Y? I should try my office's wireless, which is wholly > separate to-outside-only for visitors and I think goes through standard > local phone co. -G.
It's noticeably slower from my office too (particularly the Assessor admin form for entering votes), but I never thought much of it because my home is an obvious outlier. The server isn't CPU-intensive (load average <= 0.05), but it does have to compete for bandwidth with the family's incoming videos and torrents, plus it hosts one 50 MB file that gets downloaded ~40 times per month.
