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Subject: Re: CCC slow as a snail

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 14:25:18 05/28/99

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On May 28, 1999 at 16:08:11, Christophe Theron wrote:

Christophe,

I think I have the same problem (having the same transfer rates 200 or 500 bps)
I'm accesing from Venezuela, South America. If there are other users from
Caribe-South America with the same speed rates, then there's little about what
can be done, unless a proxy is configured and we access via proxy server.

Best Regards, Rafael

>OK, I suppose there is a problem somewhere in the path... Currently I get
>download rates between 200 and 500 bytes/second when I read CCC. And sometimes
>nothing happens for a long time (say 10 or 20 seconds). This is really getting
>on my nerves.
>
>This problem is one of the reasons why I declined the moderator job. Reading all
>the posts on CCC could easily take me more than 2 hours at this rate. And this
>is not new. Things are slow since several months. It's just that since several
>days it's getting really really Sloooooow.
>
>I initially assumed that the bottleneck was the optical cable that links the USA
>and the caribbean island, but it looks like it is not the case.
>
>
>    Christophe



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