Re: [tlug] FTTH ISP recommendation

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-08-05 23:03 +0900 (Tue), Patrick Kellaher wrote:

> Edward Middleton wrote:
>
> > I Just tried the following.
> > ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp:/pub/NetBSD/misc/hubertf/netbsd-live-2007.iso

cjs summing up here, since others can't be bothered to actually do the
math, and also want to make sure we count the time it takes to do the
DNS lookup as slower bandwidth for them:

8.9 MBps.

> Thought I would give that a try too and the first run was:

Once again, cjs doing all the work here, throw me a bone:

8.2 MBps.

Well, it obviously sucks to be me, because we use Asahi at two different
locations, and I got 1.3 MB/sec on this download at home (maybe 15-20
m of VDSL to the MDF, and probably nobody else using it), and in our
office with the same setup except that the VDSL is probably more like
40-50m, just a hair less.

Now this doesn't seem entirely related to latency, since if I start four
downloads of the same thing, and let them run for a bit, I see transfer
rates of about 450-500 KB/s each.

So why does my life suck so bad? I just had a horrible thought about that....

cjs
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