Re: Personal Oracle

From: <is11mda_at_zeus.syscon.com>
Date: 9 Feb 95 11:10:33 EST
Message-ID: <1995Feb9.111033.1_at_zeus>

In article <3hd0av$gpp_at_cs3.brookes.ac.uk>, p0070621_at_brookes.ac.uk (Tommy Wareing) writes:
> In article <1995Feb2.225421_at_ynp.dialup.access.net>, Youri N. Podchosov
> says...

>>How do you guys manage to get that slow speeds?  I see these figures -
>>10, 11, 12 hours - not for the first time, but I downloaded PO7 twice
>>(last week): both transfers were at 14.4K, started at 1:00AM and ended
>>at 5:40AM and 5:55AM resp.  Taking in consideration some slowness of
>>Oracle WWW server and known overheads for TCP/IP over PPP vs. 

 DOS/Windows

>>Zmodem over plain dial-in, I used to expect a throughput about 4M/hr
>>(vs. 6+M/hr in DOS or Windows), which is pretty close to my experience.
>>
>>So why 12 hr to download 16M?
>>

>
> Pahhahhah! (Insane cackle of laughter!)
> I managed to download the first part on 31st of January.
> I'm still trying to download part 8 (1.8M)
> Usually, I seem to manage one section per day, starting at about 9 am
> (UK time). After that, the transfers just don't get through...
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Downloaded the 17meg file in under 2 hrs with a 56kb internet connection.

marm_at_syscon.com Received on Thu Feb 09 1995 - 17:10:33 CET