Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Brian. I'm checking it out today. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Fast DSL service for image uploads? > Most residential DSL is "Asymmetric": higher download speed than upload. If you get "Business DSL", you can get an upload speed that is as fast as your download speed. (You mentioned speakeasy.com; you probably meant speakeasy.net, which is a Business DSL vendor. > > The first thing you should do is some careful measurements and computations to find out two things: > > 1) How many bits per second are you actually achieving to pictage.com? > 2) What is the upload "sync speed" of your current DSL connection? > 3) What is the measured upload speed of your DSL connection? > > The "sync speed" is the speed at which you can send data to the phone company central office that is at the other end of your DSL line. > > Use something like http://speedtest.dslreports.com/ to measure item (3). > > The reason you want to do these tests is to look for two possible discrepancies: > > a) If there is a big discrepancy between items (1) and (3), then the problem is not with your DSL connection but with pictage.com's connection, and your spending more money on a faster connection will not help. > > b) If there is a big discrepancy between items (2) and (3), then the problem is that the ISP delivering you service over your DSL line is sluggish; your data is moving just fine over your DSL line but then has to wait to be transmited from the central office to the internet backbone. > > Business-class DSL is going to cost you about $130/month, and you need to be quite sure that it will solve your problem before you make that level of commitment to it. > > Brian Reid > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information