Awful Bandwidth from Most Sites on Bezeqint - What can I do about it?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

lately I've been getting awful bandwidth from most sites on my home Bezeqint 
connection from all hosts on my network - I've tried a Mandriva Cooker desktop 
computer connected via 100 Mbps Ethernet, a WinXP SP 3 machine also connected 
via Ethernet, and my Mandriva 2010.1 laptop with a Wifi connection, and they 
all yield the same bad bandwidth (about 40-70 KBytes/s where my maximum is 300 
KBytes/s).

Note that I'm getting good connectivity from some sites in Israel - usually 
from mirror.isoc.org.il and also from http://off.co.il/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/ 
(an Israeli Apache mirror). But otherwise my downloading connection is bad.

Here's a log I've created:

{{{{{{{{{{{{{
* http://off.co.il/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-1.0-src.zip

- gives speed of 300KB/s +.

* 
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm

- gives:

shlomif:~$ wget -c 
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm
--2010-10-12 22:16:37--  
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm
Resolving ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)... 192.87.102.43, 192.87.102.42, 
2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42, ...
Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)|192.87.102.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 68730137 (66M) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm'

 1% [                                       ] 1,353,806   28.8K/s  eta 14m 39s 
^C

* http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.36-rc7.tar.bz2

Resolving www.kernel.org (www.kernel.org)... 199.6.1.164, 130.239.17.4
Connecting to www.kernel.org (www.kernel.org)|199.6.1.164|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 70217056 (67M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: `linux-2.6.36-rc7.tar.bz2'

 2% [                                       ] 1,653,032   56.3K/s  eta 16m 29s 
^C
}}}}}}}}}}}}}

I'm getting good connectivity from these sites from some remote hosts that I 
can ssh into, and furthermore the download manager prozilla ( see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/prozilla/ ) can open several streams like that 
and download individual files more quickly. I tried turning off the WinXP 
machine, but the bad connectivity remained the same.

I tried calling the Bezeqint tech support,  but the phone support guy was 
clueless as usual and didn't help me solve this problem. I have a D-Link 
router, which is pretty new (and might be the source of the problem).

Can anyone help me shed any light on this problem?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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