So Rogers has lost me as a customer...

[Andrew Hammond]

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On 31-Jan-06, at 16:26, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:39:21PM -0500, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>
>> 600KBps = 4800Kbps = 4.8Mbps
>>
>> Which is 96% of 5Mbps or 80% of 6Mbps. Assuming that you're talking
>> about download speed as reported by your web browser or some other
>> application, that's not very good delivery. If you really want to
>> measure it, you'll need to start snooping around your traffic totals
>> and such as reported by ifconfig (among others).
>>
>
> I go by the report from wget and apt-get.  They seem fairly accurate.

Sure, but they only measure throughput of the file you're  
transferring. They don't include any of the overhead. You need to  
consider the overhead as well if you're going to make a serious  
analysis of the actual speed of your connection.

> If I can have a 576KB/s average for a 30 minute download (my  
> machine was
> a little behind up updates once) then I think it is fairly accurate.
> hitting a max of about 95% of the physical wire speed seems pretty  
> good.
> hitting 80% would be pathetic.

Uh... 80% isn't amazing, but it's not too bad, at least in my  
opinion. Have you looked at packet loss rates?

> Hence why I still think it is 5Mbit.
> Makes me roll my eyes at Bell's new adds claiming to be 5 times faster
> than rogers.  They don't say up to 5 times faster, and they don't say
> compared to which rogers service.  So obviously Bell must be  
> offering a
> 25Mbit connection now.  Where do I sign up? :)

Oh, is that their new wireless thing? Personally, I think I'll wait  
until there's fiber options available before I ditch the cable.  
Rogers has been sufficiently reliable, at least for me. However we  
have a fiber connection at work...

>> So... maybe you want to buy a different service?
>
> I don't have much choice at this time.  I had a nice DSL connection  
> that
> allowed servers, ran 3Mbit (on a good day) and a static IP.  Then I
> moved, and can't get DSL at the new place.  After a year bell still
> reports it as 'coming soon'.

Well, if it's really that important, you could certainly move again.  
Or, consider it the next time you do move.

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