Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:56:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow FTP & web rates/network speed Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960321124848.46341C-100000@vv.psiint.com> In-Reply-To: <199603211743.JAA05929@Root.COM>
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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, David Greenman wrote: > >> Switch service providers? TLG's traffic appears to go out MCI and MCI in > >> the Bay Area is *extremely* lossy right now. It's difficult to get more than a > >> few KBytes/second through MCI these days. They're planning on upgrading this > >> portion of their network to OC-3c/ATM (155Mbits), but until then, MCI just > >> sucks. > >> Repeated traceroutes also seems to indicate that TLG's network is > >> overloaded. > > > >The real problem is NASA/Ames is pegged at ~ 92Mb/S on a 100Mb/S > >media. If you include about 5 hours at night, the average is "only" > >85-87Mb/S. > > The "real" problem? It might be one of them. MCI's connections in the > Bay Area are pegged at about 150Mbps on a 45Mbps media. :-) I've actually > had fairly *good* performance through MAE-west at NASA/Ames...that is, > compared to MCI's network problems. Yah, I keep running into this mess, too. I have an ISDN account at community.net (who gets their feed through TLG), and between TLG and MCI I sometimes think I'd be better of with a 300 baud modem... Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================
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