Jeremy Derr wrote: > On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:23 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > >>>similarly, your 784kbps (or worse) Cable or DSL connection isn't going >>>to be saturated by a single computer, regardless of your browsing >>>habits). >> >>Not true. My DSL connection is capped at 1.2 Mb, and I am therefore >>limited to 150KB/sec downloads. My internal network and drive speed >>could >>handle a much (probably 100x depending on which computer it is) faster >>connection. In fact, I was downloading BMW films last night at my >>standard 150KB/sec, and copying them back out over the network to my >>file >>server at the same time. The DSL connection was the overwhelming >>bottleneck in the process. > > > many (if not most) internet SERVERS won't even handle 150KB/s > transfers. I'm sitting on a 1.5Mbps T1 line right now. I don't get > anything like a "standard" 150KB/s. Nor have I on any other T1 or T3 > I've ever been privvy to using. > > Hell, my personal co-located web server is sitting on a multihomed T3 > connection in Dallas, and I'm on a 1.5Mbps T1, and I can only expect > between 20-45kbps reliably, and peaks around 75. > > Unless you're sitting ON one of the internet backbones, the Internet > itself is the overwhelming bottleneck. >
Actually Jerry, you must be sitting on some bad bottlenecks there...I routinely get 300-400 mbs transfer rates here on the UA campus to off-campus sites. Granted the UA has a 145 Mbps pipe to the 'real world', but if it were the internet that was the bottleneck that wouldn't matter. I'd do a traceroute netween you and your web server...you might find you're being routed through Sheboygan or something ;-) (someone with @Home here in Tucson, back in the day, was having big latency problems getting to an on-campus site. Turns out everything was going from here, to Denver, to Chicago, back to Denver, to SF then to us here....) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
