[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Justizin]

On 11/2/06, augie grayfox <agrayfox at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 9:33, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't think I'm taxing the hell out of my connection in any sense,
> > its not even near what they sold me. However, my connection has
> > recently started to drop packets like nobody's business. It took me
> > almost 10 minutes to grab a 17MB file from forge.novell.com, and I've
> > had numerous downloads stall completely on me beyond repair.
> >
> > Is anybody else noticing crap like this?
>
> Here in AZ, I downloaded a 78Mb iso on a win98 boxen at 54 KB/sec
> but when I switched to my Linux boxen I was getting 339 KB/ sec
> still not the greatest but much better than the 98. On cox (sucker) BTW.

Does your windows box have software installed from a CD given to you
by your internet provider?  I've seen this in the past with satellite
internet, at least, that they are using proprietary compression on the
client.

One way to get around this is to use a connection sharing solution
that runs on Windows.

Call COX and Complain.  Tell them you have an Apple to avoid arguing
with them about the commercial viability of GNU/Linux as a Desktop OS.
 It's not their place to say.

BTW, I hear tell that Comcast may be making trails into TX.  Comcast >
TWC, in my experience.  If they didn't buy out the TX rights entirely,
they probably eventually will, beginning with Houston.

Vive le Broadband..

-- 
Justizin, Independent Interactivity Architect
ACM SIGGRAPH SysMgr, Reporter
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