[GRLUG] download slowdown

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:18 +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 13:41 +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> > --the download manager somehow choked the process?
> >>
> >> Possible. What were you using for a download manager?
> > It was one that the webbrowser started-some Java download mgr, not the
> > Firefox download mgr, I think.
> 
> I like DownloadThemAll as a download manager for Firefox. Works pretty
> nicely. You should give it a try.

Thanks. Most of my Firefox downloads (Linux or Windows) proceed fine
with whatever downloader comes with Firefox. This other thing must have
been an MSDN thing--which I haven't seen before with other MSDN
downloads.
> 
> >> These last couple days, DSL might show weird behaviors from the
> >> weather. Cable might show huge variances in throughput based on
> >> crowding from a lot of people being home for the snow storm and
> >> crowding the local loop with streaming video and video games.
> > My assumption was that anything like this would be reflected in the
> > Speakeasy readings as well.
> 
> You got two different measurements from SE, didn't you? Or was one of
> those your upstream?

The readings I got were pretty consistent (if you take them at 1.94Mbps
rather than MBps).
> 
> Network traffic can be bursty. I don't know if it'd be bursty enough
> to cause the kinds of differences you're seeing.
> 
> -- 
> :wq
> 



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