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Re: ADSL Connection Speed to Israeli Sites



On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
>
> Well, I have read your email and decided to do a test..
>
> At the moment (saturday, 07:39AM) Netvision lines to outside Israel are
> almost dead - and I'm talking web sites like cnn.com, sun.com - gives me a
> speed of 261 BYTES per second - hmm, maybe I should look for 9,600 baud modem
> around here...
>
> Anyway, I have tried to grab as test a full linux kernel  2.4.9
> (size==20.60MB) from ftp.iglu.org.il, so it's from Netvision to ActCom using
> the IIX.
>
> The avrage speed was about ~150Kilo bytes per second. Remember - this is
> through IIX. Funny thing is that when I pulled Linux Mandrake 8.1 beta 3
> yesterday at 4 AM from Sweden, I got ~182 KBytes per second.
>
> So, it could be that your ISP routing is not having a good route to use the
> IIX (check with traceroute), or that they have some serious bad connection
> that no one there gives a damn about...
>

Here's my traceroute output:

traceroute to ftp.iglu.org.il (192.114.47.57), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
 1  212.199.173.1 (212.199.173.1)  16.349 ms  20.427 ms  15.906 ms
 2  212.199.50.205 (212.199.50.205)  15.735 ms  17.798 ms  18.318 ms
 3  212.117.157.166 (212.117.157.166)  22.124 ms  25.707 ms  28.090 ms
 4  iglu.org.il (192.114.47.57)  26.350 ms  28.296 ms  27.886 ms

It looks like it does use the IIX. Hmmm. I'll have to talk to the 012
guys. After I verify that I am getting the same results on Windows, or
else they may blame it on Linux.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> > 4. My ISP is throttling me (?) <<-- probably
>
> --
> Hetz Ben Hamo
> hetz@kde.org
>



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