> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, > >>> And so do we all... > > Rick, careful when quoting... > >> Yes, I understand this, Rick, but even with Cameleon's suggestion of >> downloading a larger file from Oracle's servers, at a quiet time of >> night, a 64 MB download (Mysql's community edition, X86_64) still takes >> one minute and seven seconds. > > Weaver, you don't have to center your attention on the time it takes but > the download speed (KiB/MiB per second). As I said, using Oracle servers > I can get up to 10 MiB/s which is the best number I have ever got. > >> I understand also, that many can't get these speeds, but when you are >> paying for 100MB/s and not even getting ADSL1 speeds, the ethic bothers >> me. > > That's a common feeling from users with high speed links, but there is > not much we can do, simply put: todays Internet is not prepared for > providing that speeds but in counted sites/hosts :-( > > Anyway, remember that you are paying for 100 Mbps that is around 12 MiB/s.
If you are referring to the download I mention, it's not even 1 MB/s. > >> I've worked for myself, predominantly, since the age of 17 and no client >> would ever be able to say that they got short-changed by me. It's >> unethical business, pure and simple. This goes against the grain. > > (...) > > Can you please provide the results of this speed test? > > http://www.speedtest.net/ > > I get: > > Ping: 3 ms > Download: 86.09 Mbps > Upload: 9.96 Mbps I get: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Regards and thanks, Weaver -- "I invite you to name a society that created a secret prison system, outside the rule of law, where torture takes place, that sooner or later didn't turn the abuse against it's own citizens. -- Naomi Wolf - October 11, 2007 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/29343cfb7afd889e38f001ee92c975d1.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
