Caching

Tue Feb 15 01:56:23 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:45 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:

> > 2. Everyday around 7.30 pm-8.00pm my network is very slow. sometimes 
> > (when it happens) i ping to the ISP. and get the round trip 3900ms also, 
> > and some packet drops.
> 
> Odds are that your ISP is swamped.  That's a classic "massive login"
> period (where everyone and his brother is trying to get online).
> 
That's probably correct. One question though. Do you have all the
unnecessary port closed on the router? If you are not running a server,
you can close all the ports.

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