DSL upgrade not as good as it seems
For a while I had the regular qwest service of 1.5Mbit down, 976(?)kbit up. This made me pretty happy, I’d never had something as close to symmetric as that, at least not since 28.8 modems.
Then they started having a deal on their “up to 5Mbit” service for $29.99/month for a year. I went ahead and got it, and only got a 3Mbit connect, and the part that makes it not as good is that my upstream is now 676kbit. This seemed OK at first (although somewhat of a bummer), but if you want to do any p2p or website stuff it makes a significant difference having that much less bandwidth available, mainly for interactive things such as ssh.
I’ve tried messing around with linux traffic throttling, but it seems to be pretty worthless. Sometime later I’ll detail the steps I took to try and get the throttling working in case anyone knows a better way.
