🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <kendall-0509961224450001@news.his.com>,
Kendall P. Bullen <kendall@his.com> wrote:
>In article <ph-0409962341350001@news.his.com>, ph@his.com (Paul Heller) wrote:
>
>>Harumph.  B.A. wants it both ways - they want our money to have the lines
>>that people can call, and they want your money when you call.  And they've
>>got a monopoly - there are no competitors to turn to if we don't like the
>>deal or the treatment we're getting.  Seems to me that it's high time for
>>*that* sweet setup to change ...
>
>Though this will change -- Jones Intercable (I think they're called Jones
>Communications) will one day (yeah, I know, *when*?!) be offereing a
>sweet-sounding phone+cable combination (I think there's Internet in them
>thar hills too).  They've got two buildings supplied like this as testbeds
>or whatever.

        That someday is today.  I got hooked up on Tuesday to the
high-speed internet connection via cable TV.  Maximum throughput is
10Mbit/sec bidirectional.  Flat rate 39.95/month.  See www.jic.com for
more information.

        That being said, the network is horribly congested in the early
evening.  Maybe I notice it now because I have the fast connection,
but I set up a cron job to benchmark ftp performance in 15 minute
intervals, transferring a file from wauug.erols.com.  The peak transfer
rate I get is about 120Kbyte/sec in the middle of the night.  Actual rates
at other times are usually more like 30-40Kbyte/sec during the day, and
it can drop as low as 5Kbyte/sec during the early evening.  Even at this
lowest rate, the effective throughput is about equivalent to ISDN, but
this is pretty awful for interactive because the data is transferred in
quick bursts.

        From what I can tell, the problem is somewhere on the MCI
backbone. I did some ftp benchmarks to the mail server at jic.com, and I
routinely get ftp transfer rates of about 400-500Kbyte/sec.  I believe
that this is quite close to the theoretical maximum transfer rate you
would expect from 10Mbit transfer medium.  Perhaps their gateway is
slow or something, who knows.

        I am still in the process of configuring a few things on my
machine - I only have the newsreader partially configured so I cannot
yet post from my own machine yet.  They provide a mail server and a
news server, btw.

-Eric

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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."