Click the nipple for more!

[Pneumatic]

I'm jealous! A friend of mine, and I trade music a lot (he has a T1). I can get stuff from him REALLY fast, but sending a song his direction takes forever!

So, let's see who can download this file the fastest. Then tell us what ya got!
Be honest

[Helevitia]

hehe, 750k @ 15seconds The site is to slow for my internet connection

Dave

[Liquid Snake]

SDSL rocks! Unfortunately, the price doesn't

750K? Isn't that 7mbps? I've heard of 2 or 3mbps on cable, but 7?? Well, this site was not any different from any other large site, I get ~120K/sec from many places, as long as they are well connected.

Anyway, most people seem to have slow upload on Napster, and I rarely hit my ~120K/sec max on downloads. I have uploaded to others at 120K/sec.

[SteveC]

Are you all comparing speeds from the link to the ftp.download.com one? I get a whopping 7.27 kb/sec on a 2mbps line here at work!! Something's up between me an download.com.... as to msdownload.microsoft.com, I reach 200 kb/sec

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Liquid Snake]

According to a traceroute, ftp.download.com is on the west coast of US. Pretty far from the UK, but I don't think that would affect download speeds too much. Why don't you post a traceroute? For Windows, start a MS-DOS Prompt, and type

tracert ftp.download.com

Copy and paste results (in Win9x, copy by using the box with dotted line on the toolbar, then hit the button next to it).

[SteveC]

Actually, I think something was up with our network at work as our internet access was very slow to anywhere, including uk sites.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Helevitia]

LS,

I was at work when I tested out the download. I WISH my cable went that fast
Probably helps th1at I'm in Cali as well.

Steve, yeah i was testing from the site you mention.

Dave

[Ali]

From the ping:

Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>PING FTP.DOWNLOAD.COM

Pinging FTP.DOWNLOAD.COM [216.200.247.41] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.200.247.41: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.200.247.41: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.200.247.41: bytes=32 time=204ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.200.247.41: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 216.200.247.41:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 195ms, Maximum = 204ms, Average = 198ms

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>

[SteveC]

OK, So I now have Blue Yonder fitted, and now get ~45kb/sec from that site. Not as quick as some of yours, but like 10X faster than my 56k modem!!

<PRE>
Tracing route to ftp.download.com [216.200.247.36]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10.30.112.1
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms pc-62-31-224-161-tw.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.224.
161]
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 172.18.8.57
4 20 ms 20 ms 30 ms 194.117.140.138
5 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms 194.117.140.9
6 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms linx.london.above.net [195.66.224.76]
7 100 ms 100 ms 110 ms iad-lhr-stm4.iad.above.net [216.200.254.77]
8 100 ms 100 ms 100 ms core1-core3-oc48.iad.above.net [209.249.203.34]

9 170 ms 180 ms 190 ms sjc2-iad-oc48.sjc2.above.net [216.200.127.26]
10 180 ms 180 ms 170 ms core5-core3-oc48.sjc.above.net [208.184.102.205]

11 170 ms 170 ms 180 ms core1-core5-oc48.sjc2.above.net [216.200.0.178]

12 170 ms 180 ms 181 ms sjc2-gige-main1.colo10.sjc2.above.net [208.184.1
02.103]
13 180 ms 170 ms 181 ms cnet-abovenet.1.above.net [216.200.254.106]
14 170 ms 170 ms 181 ms ftp6.download.com [216.200.247.36]
</PRE>

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Pneumatic]

What is Blue Yonder? Would it speed people with cable modems? (I would always like to be faster).

[SteveC]

No! Blue Yonder <I?IS[/i] a cable modem from Telewest in the UK!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Liquid Snake]

I don't have the best transfer rates, but I make people jealous with my ping times

Tracing route to ftp.download.com [216.200.247.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 14 ms 16 ms 16 ms 64.7.27.1
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 216.35.48.242
4 5 ms 6 ms 6 ms dcr04-g2-0.jrcy01.exodus.net [216.32.222.129]
5 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms ibr03-g6-0.jrcy01.exodus.net [209.67.45.227]
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms above-exodus-oc3.nyc.above.net [209.249.203.133]
7 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms core1-core2-oc48.nyc.above.net [209.133.31.201]
8 81 ms 82 ms 82 ms sea-nyc-oc48.sea.above.net [216.200.127.66]
9 82 ms 81 ms 82 ms sjc-sea-oc48-2.sjc2.above.net [216.200.127.117]
10 81 ms 81 ms 82 ms sjc2-gige-main1.colo10.sjc2.above.net [208.184.102.103]
11 81 ms 82 ms 82 ms cnet-abovenet.1.above.net [216.200.254.106]
12 83 ms 82 ms 82 ms ftp.download.com [216.200.247.41]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to mgigameserver.matrox.com [204.50.135.80]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms 64.7.27.1
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 216.35.48.242
4 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms dcr04-g2-0.jrcy01.exodus.net [216.32.222.129]
5 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms ibr02-g4-0.jrcy01.exodus.net [209.67.45.230]
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms INT.ROUTER.NYC9.ALTER.NET [157.130.217.1]
7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 520.at-6-0-0.XR1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.24.26]
8 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 181.ATM7-0.XR1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.113]
9 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms 189.ATM6-0.GW8.NYC4.ALTER.NET [146.188.180.57]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms spc-isp-nitro-01-7.sprint.ca [207.107.254.7]
12 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms 207.107.247.54
13 24 ms 22 ms 21 ms mgigameserver.matrox.com [204.50.135.80]

Trace complete.

[This message has been edited by Liquid Snake (edited 14 October 2000).]