Is there a Yuppie tractor?

Roy · Mar 8, 2001

Now this is sad /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. I am now working from home. Connected at 28.8 Kbps to the local UUNET server in MD. Tunneling through the Internet to an Orlando, FL extranet server to create a secure connection. Routed from there via company WAN to Philadelphia, PA to an Internet proxy. Then back out onto the Internet to the msn bandwidth test site. Back through the same route, through routers, firewalls, proxy server and extranet server. Taking this route shows bandwidth of 19 Kbps. Security sure has it's price.

markcg2000 · Mar 8, 2001

There's your problem, Roy! You're sending twice the data you need to!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

mark

Hey, what's up with that? You're making me look silly, Roy. When I'd checked a minute ago there were two posts from you, but you went and deleted the second one, didn't you /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by markcg2000 on 03/08/01 04:21 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

Roy · Mar 8, 2001

Caught it Mark. With the snail-speed, I was able leisurely review the post while sending, and caught a typo. Thought I aborted it in time. (Don't know what state the transfer is in... the proxy responded, but didn't get the information to me yet). Deleted the extra copy.

RobertN · Mar 8, 2001

Jimmy Buffet preached about that on one of his live albums. He talked about apair of tennis shoes for $100+. He then proceeded to praise his first pickup truck that cost $100.

One of my first vehicles was a free pickup, that required about $100 to get it going. AWESOME truck! It was faded, and scratched, and took me all over the place!

As Jimmy said, "Can I get a Amen for a $100 pickup truck!"

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

RobS · Mar 8, 2001

Well now I have zero confidence in that speed checker. Here's my latest result from my 56K modem here at home:

Your line speed:

4080 Kbps

500 K bytes/sec

That's off the chart! When I first checked this evening it was something like 28Kbps, much more believable for this setup. These numbers must be like table saw horsepower numbers... flakey /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

markcg2000 · Mar 8, 2001

hmmmm... I bet you've got something in your browser's cache. The first time it looked legit, right? Wouldn't have had anything in your cache then.
On the other hand, your ISP may be the one with the cache. I looked at what they said they were doing, sending a large file in the page's header, so I didn't think a cache would help, but I'm not really clear on how that actually works.

mark

Roy · Mar 9, 2001

It is cached. First time, you may notice it chugs. Follow-ups are almost instantaneous. To get truer results, I flush the memory and disk cache first.

Mark… You are correct about that it may be the ISP. I would really suspect flaky results if using AOL. They do things their own way.

Or maybe it is the test provider, msn. Good old Bill Gates… The marketing hype and promise is that it works great… the reality is that it does nothing /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Or maybe, once again being ms, it detects that I am running Netscape, and purposely reports a low number. For IE users, it wants them to 'feel good for making the ms decision' and randomly reports a high number /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif. Guess a Mac user with Netscape would get a '.0001 kbps' report. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Connected to UUNET at 28.8 Kbps, but going directly out to the internet (not going through the security layers), I get a reading of 23.4 Kbps.

RobS · Mar 9, 2001

A coworker also suspected the cache thing, so that must be it. I'll just push that bucket roll lever and dump that thing /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I'm also on AOL at home, so who knows what's going on. Truth is, I can't wait for some decent weather so I can pass the time on my tractor, not doing innane things like this /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

alan40 · Mar 9, 2001

You want yuppie?? I live in the Dairy capital of Vt. Did 20 years in the Navy. Came back home and we built our house. First function we went to was a dance to raise money for a neighbor who's house had burnt. Well I can't weld, milk a cow or any of that farm stuff, yet. So I was pretty much out in the cold. My wife on the other hand has 2 college degrees and a true work force professional. She got talking with all the other ladies and soon as she said she was raised on a farm. She was in!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Even though it was over 20 years ago!!!!! They told my wife I was about useless and they were glad she was a farm girl. You ought to see the farmers look when I plant trees, flowers, garden or just out with my 1720 working. Still not accepted yet although my neighbor will be seen with me. Must be because when his well went dry I let them come over and dig one near the property line untill they drill a well. So we're, correction, I'm useless in Fairfield have a yuppie home, 2 dogs, my wife works and I stay home with my son. Not only that I have a shiney clean New Holland tractor/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif in a predominently John Deere town. My toy as they call it can't do a thing on a farm but you can dig out there driveways, move snow or work on getting boat motors on and off.(FEL)
Life is good!!!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Al

bpence · Mar 9, 2001

Yep, there is. It's a Kuboomeere. We've all got 'em. Who cares what other people think. If I work hard, take care of my family, mind my own business......I don't care.

I know, the peole who don't have compact tractors are just jealous.

Bob Pence