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

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

P.S - I am on private NGN...

Ez

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Etzion Bar-Noy
<ezaton at tournament.org.il>wrote:

> Hi.
> I am not quite happy myself, lately, either.
> Browsing and downloading seems slow, as well.
>
> wget
> http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm
> --00:08:12--
> http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm
>            => `gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm'
> Resolving ftp.nluug.nl... 192.87.102.42, 192.87.102.43
> Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl|192.87.102.42|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 68,730,137 (66M) [application/x-rpm]
>
> 100%[====================================>] 68,730,137   113.99K/s    ETA
> 00:00
>
> 00:16:41 (132.27 KB/s) - `gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm' saved
> [68730137/68730137]
>
> On a 12Mb/s connection. NTOP reported usage of 1.3-1.4Mb/s and that was the
> only major use of the line at this time.
>
> mirror.isoc.org.il resides on Israeli IP, as well as off.co.il (Netvision,
> I think), so their speeds are excellent.
>
> This is about midnight now. I can (and will) try later too.
>
> Ez
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
>> 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<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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>>
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>>
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