[Novalug] Oh Crap -- DSL ISP s generally

Craig Pennington cpenning@gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 15:36:30 EDT 2007


On 3/28/07, Ed James <edjames@greenbelt.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking about bandwidth and caps - I'm with Verizon (no
> problems as long as I don't try talking with "help" desk
> monkies).  I've noticed that on large downloads, the down
> load speed starts high, then goes down to about 58KB or
> so.  I tend to doubt that my boxen, though pretty old, are
> at fault.  Do ISPs in general choke back download speed
> rates for large files?  There's nothing on Verizon's site
> nor TOA that addresses that question.
>
> Ed James
>

I haven't worked for an ISP for years, but back in the day, our ops folks
manually throttled users who were affecting the service for others. I
understand that they automate this now.

Cheers,
  Craig

-- 
Corollary to Clarke's Third Law:
    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently
    advanced.
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