Good point, Bill, it is a shame one must use good bandwidth to teach common etiquette (I would assume it is not so "common" any longer). Craig Bill Shirley wrote: > Whatever. I don't see anyone telling the original poster: "I have a xxx kbs > internet connection and download at xx KB per second from such.andso.com > server, therefore you should expect the same from your ISP. If not, then > find another vendor!" > > And the major point for comments like: > > What are you smoking? few servers with dish out 15k a second? Give me > > a > > break. > is that the person posting it is RUDE. You could say, "Oh, that's not been > my experience. ...." and then go on to say something about your connection > (aDSL, ISDN, 56k, etc.) or where you dl from. Something with some real meat > in it. > > My question is: "Is any of this bantering about download speeds helping the > guy that posted?!?" > > Bill > > P.S. Brian, did you get the null smbpasswords working? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. > Schellenberger > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont > start > > Bill Shirley wrote: > > > > Then maybe we don't use the same servers!! Just try to dl from microsoft > > mid-day. > > > > I have seen a few servers drive my line to the max (like sunsite.unc.edu > at > > night and netscape). I haven't dl'ed from cdrom.com in a long time, but > > they used to be slow. I've been on the internet since 1996, so I am > > speeking from a cumlative experience. > > Yes; in fact, Netscape was the one where I meased the actual 1.2G > throughput, though I've seen plenty at over 15k. And plenty of them > *are* lots slower, but I wouldn't say that > "few" can go over 15k. > > > > I think we both agree there are several factors that can limit the actual > > transmittion speed. Whatever, I am NOT smoking anything or trying to get > > into a pissing contest. I was just trying to help the guy that originally > > posted. > > > > > What are you smoking? few servers with dish out 15k a second? Give me > > > a > > > break. > > > > How constructive is this guy's post?? Did it help the guy that started > the > > thread? > > Well, I agree that the tone of his post was less then agreeable and less > constructive than it might have been, but it did, in fact, provide some > information to the original poster; namely, that it *should* be possible > for him to get greater througput than he's getting. > > I believe this to be accurate based on my experience. > > [And let's net get into cumulative internet experience. I've been > connected one way or another since 1982 when it was usenet + arpanet + > bitnet with various visible gateways connecting them . . . my wife was > astounded when we visited NY and I was terribly excited to see the famed > "SUNYBING" in glorious physical reality. Yeah, I know. Nobody here > knows what I'm talking about . . . the speed then was often measured in > *days* for messages to go across the world. Physical mail was sometimes > faster than e-mail and usually faster than newsgroup messages.] > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
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