Re: Extremely slow patch download speed


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Adam Corolla <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Incorrect, there are no variabilities in DSL. 512Kbps is always exactly
512
Kbps.

Your problem here is believing that everyone who has "DSL" has
"512Kbps".

You misunderstand. I in no way ever said or indicated that everyone who has
DSL has 512 Kbps. I asked him what his DSL speed was and that's when you
came up with the claim that there were too many variables to compare. I
only gave 512 Kbps as an example. Most people I know with DSL have 256K or
512K connections. The connection speed is the *only* variable in DSL,
that's why I asked him what it was.


The other issue that you're neglecting is that the "local loop" portion
of your cable connection is only *one* potential speed bottleneck.
Do you really think that someone with a 512k DSL line *always* gets
512k transfer rates? Of course not.

What are you talking about? A 512 Kbps DSL connection is always going to
download data at512Kbps unless the site they're downloading from is not
capable of sending it out to them that fast, but that's a different issue
and isn't related to the speed of the user's connection.


My largest complaint is that Comcast (I originally had MediaOne, which
was bought by AT&T, which was bought by Comcast) keeps upping our
download rate but lowering our upload rate. Since I actually use
upload a fair amount, it really pisses me off.

Yeah, that would bute. Upload speeds suck in general, for them to decrease
it is outrageous.



My fastest transfers were on my previous cable modem (MediaOne back
then, about a mile away in another portion of Cambridge,MA) where I
was doing a linux install via FTP to a server at MIT. The speed
was insane - I don't recall the exact transfer rate but recall it being
absoludicrous (even by today's standards). When I did a traceroute
I wasn't even hitting up the main router but only had 1 or 2 hops over
to the MIT server. Nice.

Cool! By the way, if you're ever tempted to uncap your cable modem for
faster uploads, think twice and then twice more. I don't know how they've
done it, but cable companies have actually gotten modem uncappers sentenced
to prison for doing that!!


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