[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[Mozammil Khodabacchas]

Well you can't have a case unless you are paying for ADSL business. In ADSL
home, there isn't a CIR.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Ajay R Ramjatan
<ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> $3|v3n
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