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  • #1

    ADSL speeds exaggerated?

    Okay, I told everyone in my neighborhood that I have this speedy 1Mbit/256kbit (happy Randy?) ADSL connection.

    I don't have a complaint about it, otherwise I would be in Greebe's Kingdom

    I have a question though... is it normal that speeds go up these days? When downloading I usually ended up with around 100 to 130kbytes a second...

    But lately I find that I am upgrading apperently. Getting 300k to almost 800k/second downloads...

    Check the pics downstairs and tell me what is "wrong" with my adsl






    Jord.
    Jordâ„¢
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  • #2
    733kB/sec would put you at around 6mB/sec. Highly unlikely. You'd have to have G.dmt running right at its peak in order for you to get that kind of download. Considering packet overhead, I'm 99% sure that it's not what's happening.

    <A HREF="http://dslcenter.netopia.com/netopia/adsl.html">handy link</A>.

    Since we can't see what you're downloading, it's either highly compressible data, or a bug in that Mozilla build.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      lol, the second one was the beta server 1.29 for Operation Flashpoint
      Jordâ„¢

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      • #4
        Hehe. It's not totally impossible. @Home was like that for me any time I happened to be hitting a site or file that had been cached by their proxy server. If your ISP has a proxy in place and someone else on your network has hit some of the same sites/files you're getting, when you get them they get sent straight from the proxy cache (this also assumes that the proxy is on a 'local' part of the network).

        For instance, all my MS downloads were cached when I first got Cox@Home's service in Newport News Virginia. Since their proxy servers were local (in the city), they were acting as if they were in the same room, and I got 300-400k/sec throughputs (trust me, watching the number blur in the hundreds column on a download is a real thrill, heh, even now).
        "..so much for subtlety.."

        System specs:
        Gainward Ti4600
        AMD Athlon XP2100+ (o.c. to 1845MHz)

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        • #5
          Um, as far as the 733kB/sec goes, I have no clue. I commonly saw 3mBit/sec throughputs on the proxy cached data though.
          "..so much for subtlety.."

          System specs:
          Gainward Ti4600
          AMD Athlon XP2100+ (o.c. to 1845MHz)

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          • #6
            3mb would be one thing, but Jord is getting ~100% of DSL's theoretical bandwidth. Even if he were wired straight to the cache proxy, it would still be suspicious.
            Last edited by Wombat; 2 November 2001, 23:04.
            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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            • #7
              How dare you disgrace Joel's name like that Rob!
              "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

              "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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              • #8
                I have no idea what you're talking about.
                Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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