[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[Ajay R Ramjatan]

As far as I know, there is no CIR for ADSL business either.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:27, Mozammil Khodabacchas <mozammil.kho at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>>
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