Speeding up File Transfers

Another thing... We have it at work, and have a linux box, that

masquerades for our 5 computers or whatever.   But, I believe Sprint has
some kind of detection that if too many bytes are being accessed by that ip,
it shuts down or something and you have to reset the computer.  It's really
dumb actually, and if I try to ftp to the linux box, it will shut down the
whole sprint modem.    Maybe it's just a problem on my end, but it's
completely lame.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Speeding up File Transfers


> > 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.
>
> The incredible DL speeds they show at the demonstration are files that
come
> directly off of their server, so you don't have any internet hops slowing
> anything down.
>
> For the most part, most places dont have much more that 20k/sec to give
any
> one person, so you probably wont see too many connection over that. You
> should see SOME though.
>
> Try downloading some files directly from a local server and see if it
comes
> down at decent speeds. If not you might want to have them re-aim or give
> you a bigger/different dish.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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