[SATLUG] Road Runner Speed Increase

[Eli Cantu]

up here in Dallas, I can bittorrent a couple of linux ISOs, and watch my
total incoming bandwidth burst for the first minute or so at over 10
megabit, and then it 'tapers' down to 6 megabit.

we have comcast cable.

dsl can't touch that speed, and i suspect that the cable company has more
headroom, judging from the burst speeds that i get.

(but dsl has other advantages, like inexpensive static ips, so that's what
i've setup in the office)


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On Wed, June 28, 2006 12:43 pm, Mark McCoy said:
> To maximize my download speed, I use the Down-Them-All plugin for
> firefox (which is similar to the CLI program prozilla in Linux) and I
> can tell that my download speed has increased from about 500-600 KiB/s
> to between 800-1000+ KiB/s (this all depends on time-of-day and
> traffic).
>
> My wife always gets the bill, so I haven't seen any notice from TW,
> and I haven't rebooted my cable router in a long time.  What steps did
> they tell you to do?  Maybe I can get more speeeed  ;-)
>
>
> On 6/28/06, Mitch Thompson <mitchthompson at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> Just got my RoadRunner bill, along with the insert stating that we got a
>> speed increase from 5 Mbps to 7 Mbps. So, after following the
>> instructions and rebooting my cable modem, I am supposedly at that
>> speed.  Has anyone here noticed a speed increase?
>>
>> Since all web traffic here runs through a proxy (Dans Guardian), it's
>> kinda hard to evaluate any speed increase, because of the delays while
>> the proxy fetches the pages.  I'm currently downloading the Kubuntu 6.0
>> iso, and it is running at around 365 KB/sec, which doesn't seem much
>> faster than before.  I wonder, with the increase in broadband, have ftp
>> sites and file repositories been forced to throttle their outbound
>> traffic to avoid bandwidth hogging?
>>
>> Just some random musings as I sit here, sipping my expresso, dreading
>> having to go back to laying tile in the bathroom.
>>
>> --
>> "An armed society is a polite society.  Manners are good when one may
>> have to back up his acts with his life." -- Robert Heinlein
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>> Mitch Thompson, San Antonio, Texas//WB5UZG
>> Red Hat Certified Engineer
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