My experience has been similar. I don't upload a lot so I don't monitor the speed, 5MB of website space doesn't get you too far, but I have had downloads as fast as 208kB/s. That is 208 kBytes per second which translates to nearly 1.7 Mega bits per second. It's not usually that fast but most of the time if I connect to a hot server with a good pipe I average about 150kB/s or 1.2Mb/s. Not too shabby for less than $40 a month. (Not much less.) I know this because I have been trying to get linux back up and running since I ?upgraded? to a MSI MB running dual PIII 733's. Lots of multidisk ISO downloads for different distro's. Keep getting seg faults during install...but that's another story. Both BeOS and QNX boot just fine but I had to do a repair on Win2K and linux (multi distro's) got part way through boot and just stick, I think it's a memory thing. (If I weren't such a newbie it would probably be working by now.) I guess it's time to scrub the drive and start over from scratch. Maybe I will try "Potato" again since most of you guys really seem to like it. Now I have plans for the weekend: 4 A.M. Saturday fdisk HD. (I'm an early riser) 4:30 A.M. Install Win2K (gotta have it for work, and windows will stomp on the mbr anyway) 8:30 A.M. swear I will pee on uncle Bill's grave after f***ing around with drivers/reboots/networking for hours 8:35 A.M. Have a cup of coffee, better if it's of the Irish variety 9:00 A.M. start installing BeOS (it's my fallback when everything else fails, and the bootloader rocks) 9:20 A.M. finish installing BeOS upgrades and start installing QNX 10:20 A.M finish QNX install, add it to Be bootloader 10:30 A.M. pour first drink, hell it's noon somewhere 10:31 A.M. start "Potato" install, save the fun stuff for last 12:01 P.M. finish setting up linux and smile, job well done. 12:15 P.M. start another pot of Irish coffee, maybe skip the coffee, and for god sake eat something 2:00 P.M. to 2 A.M. thrive in the glow of some functional linux, start learning BASH scripting 4 A.M. Sunday post to the group how things worked. (again I'm an early riser) Note to to the humor impaired: Everything after "I guess...." is really, well maybe, a joke. I'll let you know on Sunday. :-P I warned you it was O.T. SG, O.S.D. >That's not quite true. I was uploading to a machine at 330K over the weekend. >Now, that was another machine on RoadRunner service, but that's a lot higher >then 56K.:) >I've also download things (off the net) at about 1.1M a sec. I think it >depends on what node you are on, and how many kids playing Quake over the net >are on your node. > >-- >Jamie Seeman >Secure Computing - Test Engineer >651.628.5420 > > > >Nate Carlson wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Joseph Key wrote: >> > RoadRunner only has a 56K upload speed and about 400K download (on a good >> > day). You can get around the dynamic IP with one of the dynamic ip dns >> > services like www.dyndns.org >> >> eeeEEk! I'm glad I couldn't get that then. :) >> >> I can't do DynDNS, because I use a mail server on the IP address, and >> prefer to follow RFC. >> >> I actually ended up signing up for an account at Telocity. >> >> -- >> Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 >> http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tclug-list mailing list >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >-- >Jamie Seeman >Secure Computing - Test Engineer >651.628.5420 > > > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >