From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 21 11:34:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22216 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22211 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01317; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:34:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:34:16 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199602211934.OAA01317@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Woah! cdrom.com! Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: <4gf9v8$1mfi@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.chat you write: >In any case, it actually *IS* at 100Mbits now. CRL evidently >purchased another type of 100Mbit card for their Cisco and now we're >frequently peaking over 10Mbits, albeit rarely. >It seems that 600 users eat up around 10Mbits and not much more, so >it's more a matter of "however fast you can go, we can go" now.. :-) There has to be a bottle neck somewhere. I have a T3 that is peaking out at 8MBit/sec, and I have a full ethernet to that T3. And my retrieval performance is *dismal* Retrieving boot.flp from cdrom.com is ETA at 45 MINUTES! Here is a traceroute back to cdrom.com. 1 michnet2.msu.edu (35.8.2.3) 4.458 ms 2.598 ms 5.284 ms 2 35.125.0.1 (35.125.0.1) 10.828 ms 4.955 ms 5.280 ms 3 cpe2-fddi-1.Chicago.mci.net (192.203.195.5) 5.538 ms 5.952 ms 8.002 ms 4 border1-hssi1-0.Chicago.mci.net (204.70.24.5) 19.377 ms 145.608 ms 75.289 5 core-fddi-0.Chicago.mci.net (204.70.2.81) 15.953 ms 11.500 ms 12.831 ms 6 core1-hssi-2.NorthRoyalton.mci.net (204.70.1.94) 19.188 ms 21.190 ms 7 core1-hssi-3.WestOrange.mci.net (204.70.1.102) 30.435 ms 35.809 ms 8 core2-hssi-2.Washington.mci.net (204.70.1.106) 40.038 ms 46.752 ms 9 borderx1-fddi-1.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.52) 37.878 ms 40.587 ms * 10 mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.102) 236.610 ms 134.524 11 mae-e-1.e0.crl.com (192.41.177.104) 50.809 ms 64.060 ms 77.006 ms 12 T1E-CRL-SFO-09-S0/0.US.CRL.NET (165.113.30.101) 172.132 ms 185.432 ms 13 F0-CRL-SFO-01-F0/0.US.CRL.NET (165.113.55.1) 144.838 ms 111.282 ms 14 wcarchive.cdrom.com (165.113.58.253) 97.066 ms * * Waitaminute, is that an ethernet I see between MCI and CRL? -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/