Re: [tlug] Fast Server

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Edward Wright wrote:

> I have a friend who has some "mansion" type, and he says he only
> gets ADSL speeds, anyway.

That would depend on the number of other people he's sharing the link with,
what kind of traffic load they're putting on the link, and also what
servers he's connecting to.

When doing tests of link speed, also remember that servers that have
high latency (usually because they're far away) will tend to have slower
speeds due to limitations of the TCP stack tuning on either end. You can
tell when this is happening by doing two simultaneous downloads from
the remote server, if the speed of the individual downloads is the same
regardless of whether you've got one or several running at the same
time, this is the issue.

cjs
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