[Novalug] Oh Crap -- DSL ISP s generally

Craig Pennington cpenning@gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 15:45:32 EDT 2007


On 3/28/07, Michael Stone <mstone@mathom.us> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:25:26PM -0400, Ed James wrote:
> >Do ISPs in general choke back download speed rates for large files?
>
> No, and it's highly unlikely that they would do so. They might apply a
> bandwidth cap, but it wouldn't be on a per-file basis. You don't mention
> your connection type. You do say 58k, which if it means 58kbytes/s is
> about 460kbps, which isn't that bad (though not great) for a 768k dsl on
> a crummy line. It's also possible (likely even) that the remote site
> can't keep up. (People have been getting multimegabit home connections a
> lot faster than servers have been getting multihundred megabit
> connections to support them.)
>

Or it could be that they're serving from a crappy asymmetric home connection
;-)

-C

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