Hi,
I am beginning to wonder just what it is that we are measuring here [?]
I ran a bandwidthplace speed test 14.08.2003 at 12:09, and got 50.77 kbits/sec ~= 8.2K/s
I use linux, and started to download http://ftp26moz.newaol.com/pub/firebird/releases/0.6.1/MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz via the Firebird browser.
It chugged along at about 5K/s. I thought that a bit gradual, so I tried wget, a command-line downloader - dont laugh, it works really well, with a bunch of settings that allow you to get a file when most browsers and downloaders just give up. It upped things a bit to 6.67K/s - still no great shakes.
So, I broke off and resumed from ftp://ftp26moz.newaol.com/pub/firebird/releases/0.6.1/MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz, i.e same site, using ftp rather than http. This immediately doubled throughput, peaking at 15.7K/s, eventually averaging 12.12 K/s. Ftp downloads should be a bit better than http, but not THAT much.
My point is that with all the undisclosed choking, prioritising, cacheing, etc we are stumbling around in the dark when trying to get best performance. I think that we should demand that Telkom disclose what exactly they are doing with our data stream, and why. That should allow us to work together [with Telkom.. edited], rather than yelling insults at one another.
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