[Novalug] debugging slow download from several sites

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Mon Oct 26 16:54:27 EDT 2009


Yes, please post them.


On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Yep, and I can include them if you wish.  I note that the DSL is
> actually much shorter, the FIOS one goes through some things I don't
> know, but also sprintlink.
>
> John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org> wrote:
>
>> Can you do a traceroute from both the FIOS side and the DSL side?
>>
>> jf
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:46 PM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>>> Well, the site is 100mb and not heavily trafficked, as I said DSL is
>>> faster than FIOS from that site, although uploading to the site is
>>> at my
>>> full speed.
>>>
>>> greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> wdc.speakeasy.net
>>>> will show what bandwidth you are getting. Then check other cities
>>>> (SF, etc).
>>>>
>>>> If things look pretty good, chances are it is the site you are
>>>> trying to
>>>> hit. It is possible that the site is capped bandwidth or you are
>>>> enjoying
>>>> the benefits of FIOS-- not everyone can serve data fast
>>>> enough.... your fav
>>>> site isn't connected via FIOS or similar or they are slammed
>>>> serving data.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM, <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi.  I have Fios and I am trying to debug why I am getting slow
>>>>> downloads from several websites -- dsl is faster in those  
>>>>> cases!  I
>>>>> tried using a program called mtr, but it didn't tell me too much  
>>>>> --
>>>>> there was some packet loss between some of the  hops, but not so
>>>>> much
>>>>> that it should have caused such a drastic slowdowns.  I am
>>>>> thinking that
>>>>> Verizon is messing up, but some sites, like Microsoft, go at full
>>>>> speed,
>>>>> so maybe that was not correct.  So the question is, how can I tell
>>>>> who
>>>>> is doing this to me?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question
>>>>> is:
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>>>>> you spend it?
>>>>>
>>>>>       John Covici
>>>>>       covici@ccs.covici.com
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>
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>         John Covici
>         covici@ccs.covici.com

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John Franklin
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