From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 09:34:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06901 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06820 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:34:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA00286; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:25:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603211725.KAA00286@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Slow FTP & web rates/network speed To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:25:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: hussein@verso.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603210255.SAA04264@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 20, 96 06:55:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. See http://www.noc.uu.net/CritOut.html Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.