Mad Monk
5th May 2006, 23:49
:confused: A curiosity.
I have a 2 Mpbs downstream, upgrading sometime between last month and when hell freezes over to 8 Mbps.
So if 2 Mpbs, equating to some 250 Kpbs, is available for ALL accesing software [Browsers, P2P, VPN &c.], why does e-mail trudge in at a max of 50Kpbs ?
This is of no major significance when all is text; but I do occaisionally receive imagery from bits of family. I am not talking huge files I keep under 1MB generally and under 5Mb for high spec pics.
So, my ISP has been e-mailed numerous times and they speak not. They do not respond at all. This is an ISP one does not name but was formally owned by and still associated with a 'balloonist' of extreme sorts.
For those who have not switched off, I do not see that bandwith and contention ratios are legitimate comment here; so do I have a sub-standard service [other ISPs are not doing the snail like thing] and if so why ? Are the ISP's servers resricted, by speed owing to age, monetary greed or somesuch else ?
Constuctive coment welcomed, anything else is PPRuNe-able.
Thank you for your time if you read this rant, Mad Monk.
I have a 2 Mpbs downstream, upgrading sometime between last month and when hell freezes over to 8 Mbps.
So if 2 Mpbs, equating to some 250 Kpbs, is available for ALL accesing software [Browsers, P2P, VPN &c.], why does e-mail trudge in at a max of 50Kpbs ?
This is of no major significance when all is text; but I do occaisionally receive imagery from bits of family. I am not talking huge files I keep under 1MB generally and under 5Mb for high spec pics.
So, my ISP has been e-mailed numerous times and they speak not. They do not respond at all. This is an ISP one does not name but was formally owned by and still associated with a 'balloonist' of extreme sorts.
For those who have not switched off, I do not see that bandwith and contention ratios are legitimate comment here; so do I have a sub-standard service [other ISPs are not doing the snail like thing] and if so why ? Are the ISP's servers resricted, by speed owing to age, monetary greed or somesuch else ?
Constuctive coment welcomed, anything else is PPRuNe-able.
Thank you for your time if you read this rant, Mad Monk.