Speeding up File Transfers

> Somebody else mentioned that SBB was reworking Gilbert.. and I can
> second that. In the past few weeks(months), things have gotten much
> faster.

I might add after the rework I still had problems. I took time to sit on
phone for 1.5 hours. And quoted them download times from a program that
monitors such things.

They sent out a tech. He replaced my modem with a new "better" model and
repositioned my dish. This is when I saw REAL improvement.

> However, in the past few months, I get a lot more drop-outs, too. My
> connection drops for anywhere from a few minutes to over 6 hours. It
> happens at least weekly and sometimes daily. It can be more than a
> little irritating when I'm working.

I have had this problem too, only to make it worse it flips out my
motherboard/ethernet card and will lock the box up. The way I have found
to combat this. Is I just do a virutal terminal and ping speedchoice.com
and let it run indefinitely.

Since doing this my dropouts have gone down to say one every 2 weeks. If
the connection doesnt come back with in 10 minutes of outage. Unplug
modem and leave unplugged for a few minutes and then plug back in 85% of
the time it will reestablish the connection. (I was however told that you
should not do this more than once or twice a day or you risk smooshing
modem)

I can only assume by keeping an active ping it doesnt 'loose' the
connection. If you arent sending data it must 'relookup' to reconnect and
I think this is where the issue lies. (purely speculative on my part)

> Upload speeds is bursty and horrible. Ifthe file is less than
a > couple hundred kilo, then it's pretty fast. But if gets over 500K,
> then the upload likes to freeze for long periods of time.

Upload speed is HORRID. Period end of story.

Derek