On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 15:47 -0500, Craig Woods wrote:
> 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
"Common" is another word for "what the majority
(does|thinks|uses|likes).
Go figure
"
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!"
Actually, I posted so
ok I have it set rite now .
thanks for the info
jack
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Of Brian T.
> Schellenberger
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:28 AM
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> 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
I'm in the midwest US about 50 miles from nowhere. I have two ISP's with
T-1's but both servers are physically more than 75 miles from me.
Because of lousy connections, I bought a USR Sportster 56k external that
has the TI chipset. During heavy periods of net use I get slooow load
speeds of 4.1 an
On Behalf Of Brian T.
Schellenberger
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Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> Then maybe we don't use the same servers!! Just try to dl from microsoft
> mid-da
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 be
erger
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 1:06 AM
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Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
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Maybe not!!!
But you were making a claim about what *servers* could dish out, not
what you could receive, and your information was inaccurate in that
regard.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
> start
>
> Bill Shirley wrote:
> >
> > I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
>
> > I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum
April 30, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start
> This has been my experiance. Maybe you don't live at my house!! Maybe
you
> don't use my ISP!!
>
> Bill
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
> start
>
>
> Bill Shirley wrote:
> >
> > I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
&g
s--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
start
Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
> I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum through-put I have seen on it is
> about 15K per second. Few servers will actually dish out a
Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
> I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum through-put I have seen on it is
> about 15K per second. Few servers will actually dish out a download that
> fast!
What are you smoking? few servers with di
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:06:46PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote:
-> I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
-> second. Divide kbs by 10 ( 8 bits = 1 byte, plus one start and one stop
-> bit) to get KBs (kilo-bytes per second). As pointed out by another post,
A nit pic
"kbs" usually means bits/sec - not bytes/sec
p.f.
> Am I missing something? Even with 432kps should a 300k file take
> less then one
> second to load instead of the 30 secs it took?
>
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bruce E. Harris
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:10 AM
To: Expert
Subject: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start
I am suppose to have an ADSL link with 768kps download and 386kps upload
speeds.
I ran a
I am suppose to have an ADSL link with 768kps download and 386kps upload speeds.
I ran a test on my ISPs homepage to see what my d/l speeds are for graphics and
text. The test showed speeds of around 30kps.
I contacted my ISP yesterday and was told even though I ordered 768kps, as a
home user my
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