In a message of  Rick Van Ruth (3:640/937.6) wrote:

Hi Rick,

 RVR>>> And, like you state, it's up and down more often then a yo-yo :)

 MON>> That's the truth. I'd like to know why it's so slow though when it
 MON>> is running.

 RVR> Simple maths - the internet bandwidth is a certain size and there are
 RVR> x people using it. Once you find the figures, the result is easy to
 RVR> understand :)

 RVR> I think Livewire are join via connect.com? If so.. oh well...

Last time I looked the primary problem was that livewire connects via 64k
ISDN and since livewire supports a number of permanent connections as well
as offering the AmiNet stuff it's pretty easy to deluge a link that 'small'
into being almost unusable.  To be honest, you may find that o/s mirrors
are likely to be more responsive depending on the main o/s link traffic
from here.

  //  CYA,
\X/ Dave ;-)

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