Speeding up File Transfers

[John Albee]

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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