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In article <50o6k3$lrc@news2.cais.com>,
Eric Youngdale <ericy@cais.cais.com> wrote:
>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:
>>

>        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.

I don't know where you got your information about ISDN from, but
BRI ISDN gives consistent throughput rates of 13kb/sec.  That's
what I get on mine.

>
>        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.

it's nice to be able to transfer from the other side of your
conneciton, but it's the gateway to the rest of the internet
that makes a difference :)

-dave


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