[gui-talk] BARD download speed pretty bad for me

[David Andrews]

I have been downloading for a couple years now, as consultant, then 
pilot tester, then regular user and I have seen all kinds of speeds 
or not, at different times and days.  If there is a bottleneck,, 
which is possible, but not proved yet, it seems to be intermittent.

Dave

At 09:17 PM 6/7/2009, you wrote:
>I doubt your choosing a different time will make much difference since I
>believe the bottle neck is caused by NLS having to share its band width with
>other agencies.  The Feds probably have some servers that many governmental
>entities use on a kind of time share basis to maximize efficiency and all
>that.  This will probably change as we demonstrate more need for band width.
>I have no evidence for these conclusions.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:58 PM
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>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] BARD download speed pretty bad for me
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>Well, bottleneck was my thought, of course. But then again, it was Saturday
>night, and if you don't believe that would be a heavy traffic time, I don't
>know what to say. It was simply my experience, two files in a row. I'll
>certainly download other things eventually, no telling in advance on what
>day of the week and time of day. So I'll see how it goes next time.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] BARD download speed pretty bad for me
>
>
>Download speed from their servers seems to vary a great deal.  Also,
>have seen a wide variety of reports on different speeds at different
>times of the day, and think there may be an intermittent bottleneck
>coming out of Washington.  I think this because of the wide
>variation, and I doubt Saturday night is a busy time for them.
>
>Dave
>
>At 11:52 PM 6/6/2009, you wrote:
> >I'm on a DSL connection that isn't the fastest connection in the world, but
> >it's capable of downloading much, much faster than the 25 Kbs I'm getting
> >while downloading a book file from the BARD NLS site. I have a good deal of
> >experience with my own connection and download speed range, and I know this
> >isn't because of my side  of things. But is it that the BARD server is
> >always so slow? Or is it just maybe jammed up with traffic on a Saturday
> >night and a thousand people downloading at once? A traffic issue? This is
> >just, well, the worst download speed I've gotten with any server that's
> >functioning rather than failing for some reason. And this speed I'm getting
> >is steady in the way a failing server wouldn't cause.
> >
> >is my experience unique? Am I just having bad luck for some reason?
> >
> >
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