At 09:16 AM 11/05/2001 +1300, Chris Hellberg wrote:

>Paul Warner wrote:
>
>>Last week finally I got Jetstart up and running no thanx to Xtra and
>>their slowness at setting up my account. I used the Dynalink RTA020
>>router. Real easy to set up. However last Thursday the first day that
>>it was on I was impressed with it's speed. It compared favorably to our
>>Jetstream where I work. It was much the same.
>>However the next day and ever since it's been as slow as a dog. Only
>>slightly better than my modem on file down loads. Normal surfing, email
>>and news groups it's fine but file transfer is another story.
>>
>>I seem to remember some else posting the similar comments some weeks ago.
>>
>>Does Xtra give you the carrot of Jetstream for the first 24 hours then
>>throttle it back after that to the 128 K speed??
>
>>Paul Warner
>>
>>paul.warner@bigfoot.com
>A few people have been finding their jetstart connection uncapped for a
>day or so and it's unrelated to the ISP you choose.
>
>What sort of download speeds are you getting for file transfers?
>
>Chris
>

On Saturday nite I noticed the speed was from 2Kbits to 8 Kbits compared
with the normal 70Kbits that i get here at work to the same site
(mcafee.com) on Jetstream. I haven't down loaded any thing since then.

Paul Warner

paul.warner@bigfoot.com

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Received on Mon Nov 5 10:01:45 2001