Re: [SLUG] Modems, Ozemail or Something else causing timeouts.

[Dean Hamstead <zort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Things seem to be very very slow
I think the olympics are somewhat to blame, 
and also i think maybe broadband onto a certain
backbone which was bad even before cable/dsl
which will remain nameless....

Dean

Terry Collins wrote:
> 
> Has the internet fallen for the fallicty that most people have
> cable/xdsl and adjusted timings to drop modem users?
> 
> Or is this a sign that server loads are increasing on some popular linux
> servers?
> 
> I've noticed a falling off of successfull WWW viewing/ftping over the
> last six months. Particularly galling has been the repeated failure of
> freshmeat, sourceforge, themes, etc. Having to let wget run for a week
> with repeated restarts isn't exactly encouraging
> 
> Normally, mtr will tell me where a faulty boxen in the chain is, but it
> too is only finding  very intermittent failures. Everything shows up as
> okay.
> 
> I mention ozemail only because they have had problem boxen in the chain
> before.
> 
> So, I'm curious if anyone else is noticing this effect and would be
> interested in hearing from modem dial-in/permanent link users.
> 
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