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

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 14 October 2010 05:42:22 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:04:55 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> >> On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >>> Can anyone help me shed any light on this problem?
> >> 
> >> Traffic shaping? Did you try it at 6am or 1am?
> > 
> > No, I did not. I'm usually not awake at 6am, and usually go to bed
> > before 1am.
> > Are there traffic shaping schemes that limit the speed on a single TCP
> > connection and not the entire bandwidth? (Which in prozilla's case
> > may consist
> > of several connections to the same host.)
> 
> 012 traffic shapes that way from around 3pm until 3am. Full speed for
> about 1-2 megabytes (I don't really have been able to figure out the
> exact number) and then it goes down to about 10% of the line's
> capability. Multiple connections all get limited.

I see. I've noticed that my initial download speed is big too.

> 
> I wish I had a serial multiple connection downloader, i.e. it
> downloads a megabyte, closes the connection, waits 10 seconds and
> downloads another, until the full file is downloaded.

That shouldn't be hard to write using Perl and friends. I'll try to get to it 
today.

> 
> Meanwhile when the latest Ubuntu came out, I was able to download 4 CD
> ROM images at full speed at 9pm.

Ah, interesting.

> 
> You can easily test it:
> 
> cat "wget url" | at 03:00
> 

You probably mean:

[console]
echo "wget '$url'" | at 03:00
[/console]

Will I get the output in an email?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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