Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thomas Miller wrote:
>
> > Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> wrote:
> >
> > > You are seeing more than 3 Mb/s, but it looks like your close to
> > > 4 Mb/s, not 5...
> >
> > Just to be blindingly clear could you please post
> > (perhaps again) how you calculated "close to 4?"
>
> Didn't you mention somewhere around 390 KB/s transfer rate with ftp? Or
> did I dream that number?

I think yesterday I mentioned 320 and 326.  390 would be 
a big deal because 3.9 is almost 4 and 4 is almost 5, 
whereas 3.26 is only a "little over 3."  But I'm beginning 
to rant.  :-)  

So, you're just dividing by 100, which is the result of 
multiplying by 10 to go from kilobytes to kilobits (taking 
into account packet overhead you use 10 instead of 8), and 
then dividing by 1000 to go from kilobits to megabits?  Do 
I have this straight?  

> > > And to the ISPs servers, you should probably be able to
> > > get more. The latency interested me. Do you know how many
> > > hops you have to that ftp server? (You can check it out with
> > > traceroute).
> >
> > aluminum: {1} traceroute -I -n 207.172.2.141
> > traceroute to 207.172.2.141 (207.172.2.141), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
> >  1  10.18.224.1  8.309 ms  25.364 ms  36.551 ms
> >  2  10.18.224.1  9.392 ms  16.449 ms  7.969 ms
> >  3  209.6.160.100  6.440 ms  8.941 ms  12.470 ms
> >  4  207.172.15.146  5.935 ms  6.441 ms  7.966 ms
> >  5  207.172.19.2  16.495 ms  19.541 ms  15.852 ms
> >  6  207.96.92.134  17.451 ms  17.451 ms  19.200 ms
> >  7  208.59.255.70  17.234 ms  18.462 ms  17.982 ms
> >  8  207.172.2.141  19.461 ms  19.965 ms  21.519 ms
> >
> > I think 1 and 2 are my router and modem, respectively.
> > The times on hop 1 vary from 5 to 36 ms.
>
> A few hops, but not too bad. Yes, the first two are probably your modem,
> and whatever machine at the other end of that. Looks like the bump comes at
> hop 5. It would be interesting to know what equipment and link you have
> there, but it's getting tricky to find out.

Well, I suppose I could just ask them. 

> I also wonder why you would get between 5 and 36 ms on that first hop.
> That's a large spread.

Yup.  

Kindest regards, 

Tom