John's right. Any movement of your antenna (5% or more) will throw off your
internet connection. It also matters how many customers are being served.
Kimberly Secor
Account Manager
480-368-4638 ext23
www.extremezone.com
Extreme Internet is Ranked 2nd on The Business Journal's THE LIST for 2001
-----Original Message-----
From: John Albee [SMTP:guesswho911@home.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:30 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Speeding up File Transfers
Steve,
Sprint broadband being similar to other broadband services depends on the
quality of line of site, and also how congested the POP(The place where
your Sprint Boradband antenna is pointed to) may be. If you suspect your
system you should definitly setup a winblows machine to test. If you still
recieve similar speeds you may just be SOL because Sprint Broadband does
not guarantee bandwith at all. You may be able to ask for them to come out
and check the antenna on your roof.
John Albee
On Thu, 31 May 2001 12:10:08 -0700 (MST)
Steve Holmes <
steve@holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> I just got signed up to Sprint Broadband internet service here under the
> impression I could get high download speeds near 100KBPS. Unfortunately,
> I am only getting transfers in the mid twenty's on a good day. A test at
> their demo FTP site yielded much higher results but I noticed their test
> file was a nulls. I'll bet the fact the file is all the same character
> might result in "on the fly" data compression.
>
> I haven't yet tried this on a winblows machine yet but all my friends
> using the service with their winblows are getting speeds much better than
> me. I'm wondering if linux needs to be tweaked around a bit to speed up
> file transfers? I tried adding a window value on the route command for
my
> network setup but that seems to have no visible results.
>
> Does anyone here have any ideas? It's better than dial-up but still far
> short of expectations.
>
> I will be glad to share whatever config files privately if needs be.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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