Speeding up File Transfers

[Steve Holmes]

Yea, This SBB thing is the only game in my part of Tempe, Cox pushed their
date for full service out to next year some time and US Worst doesn't even
have a clue! let alone a date!

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Steven M. Klass wrote:

> I just have to comment.. ;(
> 
> I live in southeast gilbert (Pecos/Higley)  I came from cox@home in Chandler 
> having switched from Speedchoice (now SBB) in 99.  Cox had it's it's problems 
> in that your "pipe" is shared by everyone on your block, so at 6pm good luck 
> getting decent bandwidth.  But at least it was consistant.  Specifically, if 
> it was slow, it was slow.  If it was fast, you were in for an enjoyable ride. 
> The problem with SBB is that it's not consistant.  A freaking wind will blow 
> your ride, and you'll be reduced to the speed of a 14.4K modem...  That is to 
> me the biggest problem with the whole antenna thing.  It sucks, but when you 
> get a few minutes of speed it's fast.  Mind you, I have NEVER seen the speeds 
> Durek claimed, and I am skeptical, but it really depends where you live and 
> how close you are to the antenna.  
> 
> Now for the good news.  I am part of a new system by qwest.  DSL is old, but 
> VDSL is new and my neighborhood is ready for it.   I get it installed next 
> monday.  It has some cool features.  VDSL brings Video (i.e. Cable TV to your 
> house too.)  The best feature..  When your phone rings caller id pops up on 
> your TV!!
> 
> For everyones edification - SBB has been to my house several times and I have 
> a 1 meter dish sitting on my roof with a clear shot to South Moutain.
> 
> Later
> 
> On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:10, you 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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