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Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Hi people,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm having an argument with a hosting company abroad.
Their mirror server gives me full speed download (600k on my 5Mbit
ADSL) while my server there gives me half.</div>
<div dir="ltr">They say that they don't use any QoS tricks.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I have talked to their support and I heard a weird
claim: their mirror server's kernel is "optimized for long distance
download".</div>
<div dir="ltr">I never heard of such a thing in my life with the
Linux kernel of such a thing..</div>
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Short answer - run a sniffer on both downloads.<br>
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Longer answer - there are some tricks you can do, some of them "legal",
others violating the TCP/IP standard, in order to handle high latency
links better. They might be referring to those.<br>
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Conclusion - run a sniffer :-)<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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