[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[Ajay R Ramjatan]

For those of you who want to experiment, download a file with wget and then
retry with axel. Axel will launch multiple instances, each one downloading a
portion of the file.



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> 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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