check out my ftp site speed

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:01:19 AM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> The report I got was about 22 K, a little less than half the typical dial-up 
> speed.

Here we go again. Okay your provider tells you your speed in kilobits
per seconds. This is thousands of *bits* per secondd, but most programs
like IE or lynx tell you the download speed in kilobytes per second or
thousands of bytes per second. There are 8 bits in a byte so deviding
what the provider tells you should give you a rough estimate of how fast
it *should* be assuming no overhead. We of course cannot assume no
overhead, so subtract another at least ten percent for protocol overhead
and I bet about 22 kilobytes per second is about right.

> I am on brodband, so it should be at least 3 times that.
> Unless there is some tweaking with ifconfig that needs to be done, I am 
> wondering if I should not expect a good transfer speed via my server.

Broadband providers really do give you a fat pipe for downloading, but
they usually give you very little uploading bandwidth. Thats just the
way it is because of the masses who only know how to slirp down email
and web pages and see the net as nothing else.

HTH and sorry for the rant.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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