[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[selven]

this should be on the news paper :D to get em annoyed more and more


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Loganaden Velvindron
<gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

>   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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