Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:28:05 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I get about 8MB/S download but only about 250KB/S upload.
>
> Should those B's be b's? In other words, bits instead of bytes? Or are you
> on something much faster than DSL? In either case the S's ought to be s's.
>
>
> On ADSL I get about 900KB/s down and 60KB/s up.
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter

Bytes, not bits. I have two ISPs, Comcast & Verizon. I needed the
redundancy as Comcast for a long time was very unreliable. It's been
better in the last year. That said Comcast speeds vary a lot based on
what I suppose my neighbors are doing as cable modem is a shared
interface. The Verizon 3Mbps service speeds are pretty constant.

Measured this morning using Speakeasy's page with San Francisco as the
other end:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Comcast cable modem - 22.38Mbps download, 4.27Mbps upload
Verizon DSL - 2.89Mbps download, 0.74Mbps upload

In my home I'm 54Mbps wireless to the Comcast router which might
effect things a bit but directly connected to the DSL router. If one
goes down I just change a couple of Ethernet cables and start using
the other. I suspect that if I went to my wife's machine right now I'd
get close to 40Mbps.

In reality I find that _real_ transfers to other Gentoo computers
using rsync typically run around 50% of those numbers averaged over
time.

Point taken about s/S. I didn't know there was an accepted standard to use 's'.

Cheers,
Mark