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Tas van.Ommen (tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au) wrote:
: I frequently log in from LA and have been noticing a dramatic change in
: packeting effects in the last two weeks.  Am I to believe that the
: growth in net usage is noticeable on such short timescales??  At first thought
: one could attribute the reduced performance to a seasonal increase in
: demand, however I would expect _academic_ usage to fall off near Christmas.
: Also, I am seeing these effects around 3am-8am AEDT when user demand from
: inside Australia is surely at a minimum.

This is interesting. As I mentioned in an earlier posting, we have been
trialling a pair of data compressors on the link to the USA. These devices
do in-line compression of data as it goes by and in theory provide increased
throughput on a link of any given speed. They do not seem to have done
particularly when in practise, possibly because much of what is moved
over the link to the US is file transfer, and much of that is already
compressed.

The devices have been removed from the link because one of them stopped
working yesterday, so I will be very interested to hear if you (or anyone
else for that matter) *stops* having problems that have appeared since
Sunday 13th December (Australian Eastern Summer Time).

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