Email form Afrihost explaining my slow speeds

[boerseun]

Actually everyone is wrong!!! Bits are carried through conductors strapped to electrons. When the bits have to go a long way (ie 8000 km) they have to be unstrapped from an electron and trapped to a photon, so they can go with the photon through a fibre optic cable. Fibre optic cables are very long though and the photons get tired, so every now and again, the bits are unstrapped from the tired photons, and strapped to new fresh photons. The further they have to go, the more rest stops has to be made. If they do not make these rest stops, the photons can fall asleep, go off course and cause bit loss.

I must say, this is the best stuff I've smoked in a long time....

 

[Sting]

Actually everyone is wrong!!! Bits are carried through conductors strapped to electrons. When the bits have to go a long way (ie 8000 km) they have to be unstrapped from an electron and trapped to a photon, so they can go with the photon through a fibre optic cable. Fibre optic cables are very long though and the photons get tired, so every now and again, the bits are unstrapped from the tired photons, and strapped to new fresh photons. The further they have to go, the more rest stops has to be made. If they do not make these rest stops, the photons can fall asleep, go off course and cause bit loss.

I must say, this is the best stuff I've smoked in a long time....

And don't forget to replace the straps every so often or you'll get lots of lost packets!

 

[Murmaider]

what rward said is correct

i will admit i should not have used "all data" i should have used "communication"
if you are communicating with a server you have to request the IP address of that server from a DNS server unless you already know it

just because you have someones telephone number doesn't mean you know how to get there.
you have to consider that the IP address could be anywhere in the world - a DNS server firstly translates the name to an IP address which is all that it does

your first initial communication with the server would ask the DNS server to do a lookup from there that lookup is kept in memory locally until it expires

but your device needs to refer to that lookup before it sends the data or starts the communication

there aren't only DNS servers on the data route. there are many devices that data needs to pass through to get to where it needs to go

i just used the DNS server because it was easier than listing every device and discussing what every device does



thats determined by you or your ISP
if you look at your network settings you set your DNS server

if you don't know what and how DNS servers work please don't question whether someone does or does not work in IT

Man, you seriously need to learn your OSI model : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

This describes the network layers.
Physical data communication across the internet (like you are referring too) takes place on layer 1 to layer 4.
In simple terms:
layer 1 - the physical cable, copper or fiber
layer 2 - the network card and switch
layer 3 - the network layer, routing, ipv4, ipv6 etc.
layer 4 - the TCP / UDP communication, etc.

DNS is layer 7, which is the application layer, all it does it give an IP address for a domain. nothing more, nothing less. Once that IP address is attained, traffic is routed on the above layers and no further DNS queries are done.

The internet is known as a autonomous system/network and traffic gets to it's destination around the world based on what is known BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing tables.

In simple terms and dumb down, BGP is a massive list of networks and preferred links to those networks. This works on layer 3 of the OSI model and does not use DNS.

So lets say "bob telecom" has a range of IP addresses and hosts a servers in the US.
They would advertise this ip range, with their ASN on BGP to their peers.
Their peers would then advertise "bob telecoms" range of IP address to their peers.
Their peers would do the same and so on and so on until this has pretty much propagated across the internet.

This is essentially how traffic is routed around the internet between network providers and yes, some network providers have BGP table sizes with more than a million entries.

More information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol


Argus, there is a famous saying which says "It's better to keep quiet and let people think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

 

[semaphore]

this thread is full of lulz, moar

 

[Osiris85]

If you would like to increase your downloads, I suggest you unplug your speakers and maybe replace your mouse.

Everything on your pc consumes power ( including your router ). As such, to alleviate this and allocate more power for better throughput, unplug anything you dont use while downloading and dont move your mouse ( every time you move, the mouse uses power ).

More power is allocated to the power supply and thus, since the router is plugged to your pc and the CPU uses less overhead with movements and commands from the mouse, less work is done on the harddrives, meaning better throughput and speed ***** OFF PINK DRAGON! .......sorry where was I?..............oh ya, more speed when the actuators move over the platters.

In this way your downloads are not affected by other operations on the pc, downloads go uninterrupted and write straight to disk. Less packet loss and faster speeds.

( passes to the left.........my needle is dirty, oh well slap-slap on arm. pretty colours )

 

[Thestealth]

If you would like to increase your downloads, I suggest you unplug your speakers and maybe replace your mouse.

Everything on your pc consumes power ( including your router ). As such, to alleviate this and allocate more power for better throughput, unplug anything you dont use while downloading and dont move your mouse ( every time you move, the mouse uses power ).

More power is allocated to the power supply and thus, since the router is plugged to your pc and the CPU uses less overhead with movements and commands from the mouse, less work is done on the harddrives, meaning better throughput and speed ***** OFF PINK DRAGON! .......sorry where was I?..............oh ya, more speed when the actuators move over the platters.

In this way your downloads are not affected by other operations on the pc, downloads go uninterrupted and write straight to disk. Less packet loss and faster speeds.

( passes to the left.........my needle is dirty, oh well slap-slap on arm. pretty colours )

Tik isn't good for you.