[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[Loganaden Velvindron]

Hi,

I'm an orange customer who pays for 2Mb/s
myt ADSL. To be more precise, my parents
pay for it.

2 weeks ago, I noticed that using cvs to sync
with some opensource repo in france, the 
speed was 20 KB/s. Performing a multi-download
file test yields 100 KB/s.

I immediately called Orange and they told me
that they ``reset my port, and I should reconnect
in 5 minutes''.

Honestly, how come this sort of screw-up happens
@ Orange ? My parents are paying for 2 Mb/s, and they 
decided to cap me at 1Mb/s due to some mistake.

The local government should stop fooling businesses
with the ``cyberisland'' propaganda, and fix the 
bandwidth problem issue first. At my workplace,
the boss often jokes on how much bandwidth he
could get with the same money in france. We can't
live a little secular internet life with cached content
like facebook and expect to be a ``regional IT hub.''
I should be getting full 200 KB/s when I use cvs. Why
should I use a download manager to max out my 
bandwidth ? That doesn't make any sense. 

I'm writing about this as it may be happening to you
right now. I'd recommend periodically checking the
effective bandwidth you're paying for !
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