slow downloads

[Craig Leffel]

my modem speed is 56k. my connection speed is 46.6. when I'm downloading
files, the transfer rate is down about 4 kb/sec. according to my performance
monitor, memory usage was about 1% of capacity, disk at .5% and cpu about
5%. the last place I was downloading from was Sun Microsystems (downloading
the Java tutorial 12.4 mb). (I'm sure they can handle any traffic I can
send their way.) can I speed up the transfer rate by tweaking the packet
size? Any other suggestions (besides getting rid of earthlink)?

 

[Jim Macklin]

That sure sound very good for dialup...If you want more,
spend the money for broadband.


| my modem speed is 56k. my connection speed is 46.6. when
I'm downloading
| files, the transfer rate is down about 4 kb/sec. according
to my performance
| monitor, memory usage was about 1% of capacity, disk at
..5% and cpu about
| 5%. the last place I was downloading from was Sun
Microsystems (downloading
| the Java tutorial 12.4 mb). (I'm sure they can handle any
traffic I can
| send their way.) can I speed up the transfer rate by
tweaking the packet
| size? Any other suggestions (besides getting rid of
earthlink)?
|
|

 

[Tony Talmage]

Technically, you shouldn't be able to get speeds higher than 6KB/s or so on
a dialup, so it seems to me that 4KB/s is within normal operating speeds.

--
Tony Talmage
Web Developer
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

 

[Plato]

That sure sound very good for dialup...If you want more,
spend the money for broadband.

Its often due to the speed of the server with the files.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

When I was on dialup I would loved to have had a rate of 4KB/sec. Mine was
usually about 2.1. On broadband I am getting a average of 160 KB/s.