On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:07 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 10/07/2010 8:18 PM:<div class="im"><br>
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We discussed this on occasions before.<br>
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One thing you can't criticize Rogers Cable Internet for, is speed.<br>
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I am getting the nominal 10 Mbps, even from a server in Europe!<br>
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10GB of data @ 1.08 MB/s.<br>
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Here is the output from wget.<br>
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Length: 10,478,162,638 (9.8G) [application/x-bzip2]<br>
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100%[=========================>] 10,478,162,638 1.11M/s ETA<br>
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03:26:27 (1.08 MB/s) - `performance_101004_all.tar.bz2' saved [10478162638/10478162638]<br>
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Agreed - except, it very much depends upon the time of day. At 3 AM, I would hope you get good speed.<br>
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At 4 PM, not so much.<br></blockquote><div><br>I started it before I went to sleep, and left it going overnight. <br><br>Can't remember when I started, perhaps after midnight.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It also depends upon what you're fetching, and the nature of the traffic. K/ubuntu iso's come down full speed, other torrents, not so much.<br></blockquote><div><br>This was HTTP traffic. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Something I have wondered, averaging it out, is whether 10Mbps really matters, vis a vis, say 5Mbps - so little of my traffic is hurry up and wait for the file to come down, and for large files, since there is a wait involved anyways, a longer wait may not matter in the larger scheme of things. Traffic shaped / 10 Mbps vs. not / not insignificantly cheaper. Hmmm.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, for most stuff, it does not matter. In this case it was an archive of a web site from a client. Again, overnight job, so whether it finishes at 3 am or 6 am is irrelevant. But it has less chance of aborting when it runs for less time than for more.<br>
<br>The nice thing about this is that I was given the extra speed for free, I think twice. One time they bumped 5Mbps to 8Mbps, and then another to 10Mbps. For the same price.<br><br>And here is another thing for those who are reading this far: if you call Rogers and ask for offers and promotions, you can knock about $10 off the regular price for a year. You can do the same for cable, with more savings, maybe $15.<br>
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Uploads do seem to always go out at the full clip (512, as mentioned elsewhere). Still annoyingly slow.</blockquote></div><br>Asymmetric is the name of the game ... <br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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