[Novalug] Oh Crap -- DSL ISP s generally

Ed James edjames@greenbelt.com
Wed Mar 28 14:50:56 EDT 2007


Mike,

    It prolly isn't the remote site, since this happens no matter
where I dl from - but yer point is still valid, in that there
might be a node along the way that can't keep up.  I've got the
cheapie 15 bucks a month Verizon DSL, so I'm really not gonna
complain much - beats dialup.

Craig (different post) mentioned choking when it affects other
users - I might try a big download at some off-hour (2 AM) and
see if the time of day makes a difference.

Ed James

Quoting Michael Stone <mstone@mathom.us>:

> 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.)
>
> Mike Stone
>
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