From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 28 22:54: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ardbeg.meer.net (ardbeg.meer.net [209.157.152.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68D837B403 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from meer.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by ardbeg.meer.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6T5s5V83715; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from weathertop.home ([207.20.243.8]) by meer.meer.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/meer) with SMTP id WAA699617; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Johnson Organization: Usermode To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , Subject: Re: Network throughput Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:53:10 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <000501c117ed$e75ffc80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c117ed$e75ffc80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072822531000.31045@weathertop.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 28 July 2001 10:18 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Anyway, what I hope that you draw from all this is that DSL is not a > rock-solid circuit delivery mechanism and that the last 30 feet of wire > inside the house can kill the circuit as surely as a bridge tap or load > coil in the Telco section of the circuit. Thanks for the laughs! From my location and proximity to the telco, I should be getting double the DSL speeds I currently receive. But I never complain. I may be dense on a lot of topics, but when my phone lines are thirty years old, run 200 feet from the MPOE to my apartment wall, and then twenty feet from an ancient 4-prong jack to a modern jack, and then another ten feet to my computer, I figure I'm getting awesome speeds! If I wasn't so lazy and knew what I was doing, I'd replace that old 4-prong and eliminate ten feet of line. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message