Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:14, James Knott wrote:
>
> > Danny Sauer wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've got a full T1's worth of bandwidth to my house.  It's fast (and a
> > > bit of an involved story)
> >
> > Why a DS1 (proper term for T1)?  It's only 1.544 Mb/s.  My cable modem 
> > runs 5 Mb/s down & 800K up.  Many DSLs will also give better 
> > performance, than a DS1.
> >
> > --James, who never thought he'd see the day, when a DS1 would be 
> > considered "slow".
>
>
> And herein lies the fallacy, your download speed does not as much depend
> on what your ISP provides you but what the ISP of the site you are
> downloading from provides. Does not matter that you have 5 or 10 Mb/s
> down if the site you are connected to can only provide 1 Mb/s up.

Assuming there's no bottleneck elsewhere, my 5 Mb download will be
faster than a DS1.  I have often seen downloads at 620 KB/s, which is
very close to the maximum 5 Mb/s my cable modem is capable of.  There's
no way a DS1 could do that.