[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[Ian Ozsvald]

Al, I'm in BN2 (Kemptown, nr Marina), everything's fine with my Be Pro
account, best broadband I've had in years (had it since Winter).

With speedtest I get 14mb down and 1.5mb up.  The web is responsive, ssh to
the US is fine.

i.

2009/3/2 andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk>

> and/or better router.
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mar 02, 2009 at 08:38, Alastair James praised the llamas by saying:
> >> Hmmm..... I will switch my DNS over to opendns, although I dont
> >> *think* its that, as its not look up times that are slow, its transfer
> >> times. I.e. large images downloading bit by bit over a second or
> >> more...
> >>
> >> However in general it seems slightly better this morning...
> >>
> > You might find it better to install a local caching DNS server in your
> > machine and use that.
> >
> > DNS will only improve the time to start downloading an file. The smaller
> > the files involved, the bigger the impact slow DNS has. Several
> > mechanisms will mitigate the problem, like DNS caching in applications
> > and connection keep-alives, like in HTTP 1.1.
> >
> > Improving DNS lookups will not make large downloads happen quicker; only
> > more bandwidth will do that.
> >
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> > David Pashley
> > david at davidpashley.com
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