Broadband

[Gene Dascher]

I had to download RH6.2 Friday night as my gateway machine crashed HARD.
For the first 300MB, I was getting 185K, it went down to 145K and then up to
160K.  The download took about an hour.  This was from ftp.freesoftware.com
.

Speaking of RedHat, has anyone looked at RH7 yet?  Are there any great
benefits to upgrading, or should I wait until the 2.4 kernel comes out?

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Kelsay [mailto:bkelsay at askpioneer.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:30 AM
To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
Subject: Broadband

I have gotten as high as 175K downloads.  It all depends on the site and
traffic.  I had the fast one with winamp and microsoft update, slower with
the Staroffice.sun.com (60-70K) and Netscape sites.  All this with Comcast.
I'm happy because it's generally faster than my T1 connection at work that I
share with 100 or so users.  On dial up at my old house I never got faster
than a 40Kbps connection and 3-7K downloads.  Can you say 8-25 times faster
than dialup at the old house.  Dialup at the new house however was getting
consistent 49K connection speeds for the few days I tried it.  Here I have a
buried cable and its about a 10 yr. newer neighborhood.  If I ran some Cat5
cable for the phone lines then at both places I'm sure I would see
improvement.  Infrastructure can mean quite a lot.  At the old house when I
first moved in I got at best a 28.8K connection.  I ran new standard phone
cable and up that to a standard connection rate of 38K and sometimes as good
as 40K, so with a little better cable I doubled performance, no other
changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof. Jerry Place [mailto:place at cstp.umkc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:33 AM
To: phase at booyaka.com
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Broadband

SNIP

   The big issue with Road Runner is bandwidth.  The best I can get is
32Kb upload and about 50-70Kb download.  My headend must be fully
populated.  Faster DSL is on the horizon -- up to 25Mb, thus the cable
modems are really a transitory technology as the cable companies are not
likely to give up one or two of their 15 home shopping channels to
provide faster Internet connections.  I'd be interested in hearing what
transmission rates others are getting and how others get around the
dhcp.

					-- Jerry Place
					-- CSTP