Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Surely you've got that backwards: Shouldn't it be 50 M down and 20
up?
And, please cite specific sites where your issue happens. No matter
what your ISP speeds, servers/specific sites throttle bandwidth. You
can do a speedtest.net test and see your ISP throughput but, in real
world usage, you'll never see those speeds.
I routinely get the bandwidth promised by my ISP and measured by
speedtest (49/39 just now vs. advertised 50/25). A client asked me to
download a 144 MB file the other day, it took only a minute. It wasn't
compressed, and Windows Explorer confirmed the size. Took her hours to
upload. ;-\
You're right that a slow server won't take advantage (arirang.co.kr is a
chronic offender, probably overloaded due to the ferry disaster), but
what's to keep you from pulling content from several servers at once?
Case in point (not that I'm advocating it): uTorrent and its kin.
Well, you can certainly download from multiple servers at once. But
what's that to do with throughput on a throttled server that is NOT a
torrent?
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