Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

[Philip Webb]

120701 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
>> So  2  conclusions for me : (1) yes, servers do impose time-slices ;
>> (2) my basic problem remains the very low bandwidth I'm getting,
>> which I have to take up with my ISP once I've clarified other aspects.
> There's probably nothing your ISP can do about it,
> unless you're talking about upgrading your service.

The ISP doesn't own the physical wiring, recently upgraded to fibre.
A friend on the opposite side of town using the same ISP
gets  10 times  the speed I get (  5 Mb/s  a/a  0,5 Mb/s ),
while the man next-door with the same wiring coming into the building
but using a different ISP gets  12 Mb/s .
My speed was cut in half  c 12 mth ago  for an unknown reason.
This is downtown Toronto, where I should get a good speed,
so I suspect either some accidental misconfiguration or dirty tricks.

> One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so
> for a Linux VM at some VPS provider, install and configure Squid
> and bounce your own traffic off of it.
> Squid will pull down the file faster than you
> and won't impose a connection time limit on you.
> If you do something like that, be sure to properly secure it.

Well, the simpler alternative in my case wb to use the UoT service.
I can 'ssh' into a CLI on the CHASS machine, which runs Irix,
then use 'wget' from there with a very fast connection.
Downloading a file from there to here would remain fairly slow,
but it wouldn't be subject to any throttling or slicing.
I tend to forget that resource, however (smile).

Thanks again for the advice & anyone's further thoughts.

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