Network question

[Chuck Guzis]

On 1 Jan 2007 at 11:03, Rick Bensene wrote:

> If you want your Internet to be faster, spend the money to try to get a
> faster connection (if possible).  With DSL, the limiting factor on speed
> is the distance from your home to the closest DSLAM, and the equipment
> used by your ISP.

It's the fastest it comes right now--I'm over 10 wire-miles from the 
CO, but Qwest bought some land from me and installed a terminus of 
some sort about 400 ft. from the house (a 20'x20' concrete pad with 
lots of big boxes--and a Qwest service truck tha seems to be parked 
daily--on it).  They tell me that Real Soon Now, they'll have 5Mb/sec 
service available.  "Real Soon Now" in my experience with Qwest seems 
to be about 3-4 years.

Still wondering where that 42Mb/sec service is that the telcos 
promised the FCC they'd have deployed in  2006.  Qwest seems to be 
more interested in selling me Dish TV and mobile services than 
providing good net access.

The maddening thing is that there's a local wireless net provider 
here with excellent pricing.  I can see their transmitter tower two 
hills over from my window, but they nothing pointing in my direction 
nor do they plan to.  And cable doesn't exist out here in the 
boonies.

BTW, manually altering the setting on the 100BaseT NICs does appear 
to make a significant difference in performance, although Win2K does 
appear to be doing the cybernetic equivalent of passing a kidney 
stone when settings are being changed.

As far as file movement between systems goes, 1MB is a big transfer 
for me--I mostly move source code, executables and small data files 
around. 

Cheers,
Chuck