On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > ...which generally just means that the bottleneck gets moved elsewhere on the > network. Granted, I don't spend a lot of time moving large blocks of data > around, but when my DSL was at 256k, there didn't seem to be a whole lot of > sites (other than debian.org) that could fill that pipe. Now that USWest and > visi have pulled their rate limiting and I can do 640k, even debian.org will > frequently be unable to pump data out fast enough to fill it. debian.org is very good at sucking up most of our t1 here.. get downloads of 130-150kbytes/s from there all the time. > A 2M or 5M connection would be serious overkill... I suppose it might help > latency some and it would certainly improve multiple simultaneous transfers > (unless they're all to/from the same host), but that's about it. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org