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| 657172 | 2008-04-08 20:36:00 | I've been reading a lot of complaints about slow internet and the need for new cables etc. etc. I have never had any real complaint about download speeds.I am quite happy with what I have now. What I do complain about is the connection times and download speeds from certain sites. Time to turn pages and to upload posts. Is this the fault of the internet or is it the fault of a lot of sites running very slow servers? I strongly suspect it is the latter. If we were to get new cables would it make any difference to our service from these sites? I don't think so. I notice that some sites are always running at the same speed,regardless of the time of day or night. A good example is microsoft.com. I can always download from them at over 4 MBps. While other sites may very from fast to very slow. Some even give a message "Our servers are overloaded. Try again later". Are new cables etc. going to make any difference to these sites? As I see it, it's like driving down a three lane motorway at 100 mph. The motorway ends a a one lane street. Result a traffic jam. Add a couple more lanes to the motorway and we can drive down at 200mph. Then we reach the exit, same hold up. So if I can double or treble my connection speed between Rotorua and Auckland is it going to improve my connection times to, say PC World? Will I be able to download and upload any faster? I doubt it. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 657173 | 2008-04-08 21:03:00 | The amount of people downloading from the same site, would also slow things down a bit as well. Traffic and congestion would also slow things down MS and Apple would have pretty fast servers. I've never had a prob with either. I notice usually at night (with Xnet) things are slower than in the morning. Probably because everyone is on all at the same time. They dont have to be on the same site as you tho. But youre right, its probably the cable (or the amount of data it can handle), why speeds go up and down. If the cable was fibre-optic or something, it wouldnt have any probs with dealing with the flow of traffic / data going through it, day or night |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 657174 | 2008-04-08 22:28:00 | I have tried jumping up and down re above problem,for some reason nothing changes. I use the Masai technique,maybe thats the problem? |
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