[H-GEN] optus speed?

[Christopher Biggs]

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Serge Rey <serge at rohan.sdsu.edu> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> i set up a lan connected through a debian box acting as the
> firewall/gateway to an optus connection. this was on sunday past and i
> notice that the connection speeds were painfully slow in the afternoon
> of that day. 
> 
> yesterday, during the day, the speeds were very good up until about 7pm
> at which time things began to crawl again. this morning things are fast
> again, so i'm assuming this fluctation is due to heavy use by all optus
> user in the area, but being a newcomer to the area, i wanted to check
> with others who have used the service longer than i if this is indeed
> the case. or perhaps i may need to do some more tweaking of my dhcp set
> up?
> 

You're on a shared network, so expect varing throughput.

Best I've seen with optus cable is nearly 400 kbytes/sec FTP download
from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (which is on the Optus backbone), and this
was back when that site was located in Brisbane (now it's in Canberra).

At other times, I've had downloads from the same site nearly ten times
slower than that.

--cjb

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