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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!avondale.demon.co.uk!avondale.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk (John F Hall) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 8 Jul 1996 00:39:51 +0100 Organization: - Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4rphs7$158@avondale.demon.co.uk> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <4rcr6v$dh@anorak.coverform.lan> <4rf3e3$25i@avondale.demon.co.uk> <4rjrkt$ih@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: avondale.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: avondale.demon.co.uk In article <4rjrkt$ih@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Hey ? I'm not talking about dividing anything. Hmmm, are you then totally incompetent, not even capable of understanding your own articles? >Oh give me a break. Haven't you heard of the web ? Yes, so what? Haven't *you* heard of the other Internet applications? >Does anyone know what percentage of Demon customers use the web ? Yes, Demon do. >Just about every interesting site is in, or points some links to the >States. So what? >: Don't you think Demon have *measured* the traffic on each route? > >No I don't. If they have, why is the throughput lousy ? Because, as has been explained, the Internet links in the US and the popular sites are overloaded. >: >We at Demon have only *one* route to the states. > >: That's wrong too. > >I mean "one route in use". If RIP starts routing stuff some other way, >(say through UKNET - or is it UUNET?) and not through Demons direct >connection, that'd just reinforce what I've been saying. Still wrong. That's been corrected by several people. So why are you repeating such nonsense. Demon have *several* direct connections of their own. >1994 was when things started downhill. 1995 was bottom. >1996 looks promising. It isn't only Demon that grown explosively in the last two years. So has the traffic in the US. Demon has had it's bottlenecks from time to time, but now seems on top of them. However that doesn't mean that there won't be bottlenecks elsewhere. -- John F Hall jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100016,1210