08/23/1999 – After Three weeks in the making, the results are in!
It’s good! Apparently Phil S of Madison found a defective IO controller card at the head end (whatever that is, a router would be my guess) Saturday and replaced it today. It would seem that they have a Cisco device that scans all the ports for packet loss or fragmentation etc. and even that couldn’t find this defective controller. My only real complaint is that I told everyone that whatever was wrong was a something that controlled the entire neighborhood. Be it a node, a router, a hub or what have you. I told tech support that three weeks ago.
Enough griping though, it’s fixed. My transfers from MP3.com (where this all began) shot up to 40k/sec. I went to www/download and chose one of the setup files and I was getting 150k/sec. Satisfied with those results I let Phil and Shawn (from MI Bresnanlink) have at my computer while they did some benchmarking. They didn’t elaborate to me too much but it seemed as if the results they got were what they expected.
They left and spent a couple of hours looking for things to download. I’ve been getting some strange results, but so far they are way better then what I was getting. I would be downloading a game demo at the same time from the same place as a friend and only get 16k/sec while he’d get 80k/sec. But then I’d download something completely different from a different site and get 160k/sec. I haven’t done enough of my own benchmarking to know whether I’m satisfied with what this product can deliver. I am however sure that at this point my system should be up to par with the rest of Madison. Commence billing and let the good times roll.
The End?