Re: latest hiper group

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

 I'm not sure what you mean about not using 100% of the bandwidth.  I 
download more PTFs than the average guy (currently 35GB of PTF images on 
line) and I routinely get downloads waay over T1 speeds, as high as 500 
KB/s.  Remember that a T1 is about zero.15% (.0015) of a GbE  so even a 
heavily loaded network is going to find room for that itty bitty teeny 
little dribble of traffic.   It's much more likely that your T1 is being 
used for other things like spam, web browsing, spam, email, spam, 
streaming audio, spam, vpn traffic, etc.  Oh and did I mention spam?

I ALWAYS do these downloads in batch, it's the only way that makes 
sense at all. Even at 450 KB/s it takes 20 minutes for a full CD image. 
 I have a routine that does the download and then emails me the ftp 
output log when completed so I can review it to make sure all went well.

- Larry


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> It does take awhile - that's why I do it in batch.  And if you are talking 
> about comm resources IBM normally doesn't run the lan at it's full rated 
> speed.  Translation - even though you have a GB ethernet attached to a T1 
> IBM won't use 100% of that T1's bandwidth.  It's normally only a small 
> percentage.  As far as other resources you should be able to do some 
> tuning.  And if that doesn't work, and it's still bogging down other 
> processes - buy a newer machine.
>
> Rob Berendt
>  

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