| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 6 Jun 2001 at 10:47:59 |
| Subject: | Re: BigBlueSky-Unmetered ISP |
Bob Rickman said,
> I tried lowering mine from ca 56kbs to ca 38kbs and have since had mostly
> 1st or 2nd dial success, with no noticable loss in actual download speed.
> You need Neil or someone like that to explain the /ins and outs/ of that.
It means their servers and/or network are overloaded. An ISP should be
able to deliver data at whatever speed your connection is capable of
handling. Any less means they don't have enough capacity for the number
of users.
Downloads from outside of the ISP's network are also subject to other
factors, like server speeds and the connections between them and the
ISP. The ISP can sometime improve the latter, by having decent
connection to various parts of the Internet, but can do nothing about
the former.
Cheers
Neil
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