I've been trying to download a file now for the last three days.
It's a whopping 1.75Meg file (no, that's not a typo, I said MEG), but it's coming across at a pitiful rate due to some SERIOUSLY obscene ping times.
I watch it bounce from being measured in BYTES per second, all the way up to ONE-point-THREE KBps, and back down again.
I ping my ISP & run a tracert, only to see times averaging in the 4500ms time zones. =(
Shortest ping was just under 2,000ms, longest was nearly 6,000ms.
I'd call & complain, but it's not MY ISP (I'm borrowing it from the friend who's garage I'm currently living in) and it's Dial-Up.
If I attach a phone to this line so I can call 6-1-1 Repair Service to complain, it'll hang up the connection & dump me from getting the file.
(Bangs head on the desk in frustration.)
Oh well, at least I found a good use for the desktop system - it's the system currently downloading the file while I use my laptop to go to the Library's WiFi & hunt for jobs. =J
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