ITGuy72
Permanently Disco
Premium
join:2001-11-01
New York
| reply to siikosane
Re: OOL FTP speed test is BULLSHIT
said by siikosane  :
CPE USB MAC Address 00:08:0E:D7:F8:9D
It's the simple things in life that make get me through the day!!! LOL. |
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DefMan
join:2002-02-20
Elmont, NY | I sure hope that does not mean he's using both USB and ethernet. |
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to Irish Shark
any suggestions as to what tweaks i should use? I'm no paranoid about my speed. This about it this way. What good is 1mb if you don't get 1mb anywhere except OOL FTP test. I don't even get close to 400 on most of my downloads. I asked several people with OOL around my area to download from that the same files from different servers and they all get higher speeds that me at least twice as fast. |
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to Lex Luthor
The download speed for the AOL test is between 380-420. It started out at 700kb like the majority of other downloads than slowed down to the speeds above. You see I'm not crazy!
I have the modem plugged in directly into my NIC.
[text was edited by author 2002-10-30 17:17:47] |
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DefMan
join:2002-02-20
Elmont, NY | You're probably going through a bump in the OOL road. It happens. It may be temporary. |
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to siikosane
should i contact them? Sometimes i barely get 300 in the evenings. I have OOL for a week now.
[text was edited by author 2002-10-30 17:23:26] |
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DefMan
join:2002-02-20
Elmont, NY | It won't hurt to ask. |
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY
| I just called and that stupid tech support guy was talking to me like i'm a freaking dumb ass. "We advertise speeds up to 100 times faster than 56k. UP to 100 times." He tried telling me how every server than i connect to has internet congestions and stuff, how the information takes a totally different path to my pc as oppose to my friend's PC who lives 7 blocks away. Blah Blah Blah! I'll just have to sit this one out |
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JoshNJ
Premium
join:2001-12-25
Freehold, NJ
| said by siikosane :
how the information takes a totally different path to my pc as oppose to my friend's PC who lives 7 blocks away.
that is true
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JoshNJ
Premium
join:2001-12-25
Freehold, NJ
| reply to DefMan
said by DefMan :
I sure hope that does not mean he's using both USB and ethernet.
no it doesn't, that address shows up even if your not using usb, and its not possible to use both at the same time anyway
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Irish Shark
Play Like A Champion Today
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV | reply to siikosane
How about this for the last month and a half ...
2002-10-30 20:22:22 EST: 1818 / 815
OOL FTP = 32
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kgatwork
join:2000-11-11
Smithtown, NY | Irish:
Do you think they will fix it anytime soon? I'm not holding my breath on this one! |
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Irish Shark
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV | Eventually, yes.
When?
Only God knows. |
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ExecPro
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Long Beach, NY
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| reply to siikosane
When you use the OOL FTP to download, I may not be correct when saying this, but isn't it almost the equivalent of downloading something through your network and not the internet because all a cable modem does is create a LAN? The speed you get to a remote site would be completely different because it actually has to through the Internet. |
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GeekNJ
Premium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ
| It's not a pure LAN connection... you are going through multiple routers (hops) to get to the site. It's also effected by other elements such as multiple people pulling the file off a shared FTP server.
But it's less effected by routes and devices outside the control of OOL. Everything you're seeing when pulling that file is something OOL is responsible for. You aren't going over 3rd party networks and onto a machine that might be under powered for the load it needs to sustain.
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Have you tweaked your OOL connection? |
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Irish Shark
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV
| reply to ExecPro
Yes, that is correct. One test is inside OOL Land and the other that I use for helping folks tweak is the AOL speed test which is outside of OOL Land.
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A snip from my tweak posts ...
After that Run these Speed Tests.
Check your speed at these two sites:
Inside OOL
OOL FTP
Outside OOL
AOL FTP
You can stop both tests at the 50% mark. Note your speeds and post them.
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Irish Shark
Play Like A Champion Today
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV | reply to GeekNJ
FWI: Right at the moment the AOL test is 1.05 and the OOL test is 0.98. Go figure.
Most of the time they are almost equal.
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to Irish Shark
this is weird. For some reason I believe Speakeasy the most. I wasn't able to download from any site faster than 100kb/sec. What do you think may be the problem here?
[text was edited by author 2002-10-31 11:00:41] |
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Irish Shark
Play Like A Champion Today
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV
| The Speakeasy test is the SLOWEST of the three tests.
OOL = 1.07 = 8786 in Speakeasy terms
AOL = 415 = 3400 in Speakeasy terms
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Why do you believe that the Speakeasy test is the best of the three?
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siikosane
join:2002-08-29
Brooklyn, NY | because I tried downloading from fast sites like ICQ, mIRC, fast XDCC and other where i got 250-500 before, and now they don't even go into the 100 range. What can be causing this if my OOL test is 1MB/sec? |
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