[Lincs] ADSL etiquette

[Peter Cooper]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to the broadband club! :)

On 20 Sep 2004, at 13:50, Chris Lingard wrote:

> Should I leave the modem on 24/7, or disconnect when
> I am not using it; does this matter?

It doesn't matter. DSL is considered an 'always on' service. You can 
disconnect if you like, however, although if you're firewalled or have 
a network running through a router, there's no need to worry. That 
said, downloading gigabytes of data in the first several days of having 
an account might not have been the best thing to do. ;-) Hopefully you 
won't get tagged as being a high usage account.

> I notice that the download speed can vary between 40KB/sec
> and 60KB/sec. Is this normal?

Yes. Bear in mind that often the sites you're downloading from will be 
overloaded or behind weird configurations that cause them to be slower 
than you might expect. I once had a month on 4Mbps DSL, and it was 
/very/ rare anything would max it out. 40-60KB/sec sounds healthy for 
512kbps.

> Another strange thing is that if I use the ISPs smtp service
> smtp.ukfsn.org, then mails to the list bounce.  But a direct
> email works?

Are you sure your 'From' address is still the same in your e-mail 
client when going through that SMTP server?

Pete