Speeding up File Transfers

[Brian Cluff]

> 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