120701 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> So 2 conclusions for me : (1) yes, servers do impose time-slices ; >> (2) my basic problem remains the very low bandwidth I'm getting, >> which I have to take up with my ISP once I've clarified other aspects. > There's probably nothing your ISP can do about it, > unless you're talking about upgrading your service.
The ISP doesn't own the physical wiring, recently upgraded to fibre. A friend on the opposite side of town using the same ISP gets 10 times the speed I get ( 5 Mb/s a/a 0,5 Mb/s ), while the man next-door with the same wiring coming into the building but using a different ISP gets 12 Mb/s . My speed was cut in half c 12 mth ago for an unknown reason. This is downtown Toronto, where I should get a good speed, so I suspect either some accidental misconfiguration or dirty tricks. > One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so > for a Linux VM at some VPS provider, install and configure Squid > and bounce your own traffic off of it. > Squid will pull down the file faster than you > and won't impose a connection time limit on you. > If you do something like that, be sure to properly secure it. Well, the simpler alternative in my case wb to use the UoT service. I can 'ssh' into a CLI on the CHASS machine, which runs Irix, then use 'wget' from there with a very fast connection. Downloading a file from there to here would remain fairly slow, but it wouldn't be subject to any throttling or slicing. I tend to forget that resource, however (smile). Thanks again for the advice & anyone's further thoughts. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
