4:00 AM Internet Speed = 2km/h

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benkloepfer

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Posted: Mar 12, 2005 - 04:22 AM
Post subject: 4:00 AM Internet Speed = 2km/h

Ok, its 4 in the morning and I'm climbing the freaking walls here!

My baby boy just woke up and started crying, so I change the diaper and make a lateral pass to the wife. Nipple in, quiet baby... for now.

Now I'm awake and China is sleeping, so in theory the internet should be faster now, right? Everyone keeps saying that you never get the full 2MB/sec or whatever China telecom pretends to provide you with, and the reason being "...because all 400 billion of us are crammed onto a tiny bandwidth..."

So why aren't any of the sites I want to visit opening right now? Don't tell me its the massive number of users out there at 4 in the morning.
I know the sites I want are not blocked because they have worked for me before. I tried two different proxies picked at random from a list of thousands here in asia. But the proxies are even slower than the normal connection and actually less likely to open the sites I want. What am I doing wrong? Is there any method to picking a proxy server to use or do you have to stab in the dark and hope you find one that isn't slower than frozen dog doo. Could there be a virus on my computer sending out viagra spam to the masses and using up my precious bandwidth? (I doubt it)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm going back to bed now. Thanks for letting me vent.
Ben

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Posted: Mar 12, 2005 - 12:24 PM

I found the last week to be particularly frustrating and bad. I often download from a particular site in the US which I always get around 12 kb/s. Until yesterday I got no more than 2kb/s all week, and the connection was continually resetting Sad

I did some network tracing and I think the problem actually is internally in China -- not with the link between China and the US Sad

There was a 130 ms hop between the US and China, and then a huge drop off internally at some internal router. The links to Japan were still, however, quite good...

What proxies do you use?

Regards, Matthew