From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 09:43:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA09553 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09537 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id JAA05929; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:43:53 -0800 Message-Id: <199603211743.JAA05929@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert cc: hussein@verso.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow FTP & web rates/network speed In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:25:41 MST." <199603211725.KAA00286@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:43:53 -0800 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. 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. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project