Re: [TCLUG:21970] Should DSL or Cable modem

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

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.

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