Re: tlug: Firewall machine - how fast for ethernet speeds

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

>>>>> Dave Gutteridge writes:  (on 25 Nov 98)

> Also, a guy at the NT users group was saying that a lot of the cable ISPs
> in Tokyo were only useful so long as you accessed sites within a certain
> area accessable directly by the ISP. If you tried, for instance, to FTP to
> a remote site in North America, your kbps dropped to a few kilobytes per
> second.

This is true of the internet in general.  Hop counts and latency matter.

Fortunately, IIJ is still the largest ftp archive in Japan (to the best
of my knowledge).  I would *KILL* to have 6 Mbps to IIJ.

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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