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- From: ed.palmer@sasktel.sk.ca (Ed Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Hayes ESP drivers
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 14:32:12 GMT
- Organization: SaskTel
- Message-ID: <4h71pc$qil@sktelgw.sasktel.sk.ca>
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- In article <4h4uqa$9tu@news1.is.net>, rlacy@hayes.com says...
-
- >>Does anyone know of a site other than Hayes where I could download the
- >>drivers for their ESP card? Their web and ftp sites are so slow it's
- >>impossible to get the file from them.
- >
- >Ed,
- > Unless you're hitting it during the heart of primetime, we should be
- >getting decent speed. I've never seen it slow to the point of being
- >unusable
- >even then though. However, as our traffic is increasing exponentially, we
- >will be adding more bandwidth soon.
- > At any rate, you can get the file from our BBS or Compuserve as well
- >as off the FTP site...
-
- I've been trying to use it during the day from work. You get so spoiled by
- a dedicated T-1 connection. :-) I noticed very slow performance on your
- web site and was unable to download the files I wanted through there or by
- using a dedicated FTP program. After reading your message, I went back to
- the FTP program and set the timeout period (how long the program waits for
- a response) to two minutes. That was the problem. For some reason, your
- site is VERY slow in responding to a login. It took over a minute. Once I
- was logged in, the response was reasonably good. Thanks for your message.
- It made the difference.
-
- Ed
-
- P.S. I hope you're monitoring your site closely. A web/FTP site that is
- slow or out of date is as bad for a company's public relations as shipping
- your products without bothering to assemble them first. The company looks
- stupid, uncaring, or both. If management balks at paying the costs of a
- reasonable bandwidth system, perhaps you could lease space on a large
- system that does have high bandwidth. I can't believe that I'm saying
- this, but I think it would be preferable to have NO internet site rather
- than a BAD site.
-
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