Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Hmm. I seem to be getting between 3 and 20 KB/sec. It managed to 
> download 6 sheep in fairly short order, but I'm getting really bored of 
> watching the same 6 animations endlessly repeating now. A few sheep seem 
> to be quite excellent, and the majority are unspeakably lame. (This is 
> based on a sample of 6 though, so perhaps unrepresentative?)

Well, last night it finally downloaded a 7th sheep.

This morning I turned it on and did see it peak at 95 KB/sec. So 
apparently my Internet link is much faster than the 20 KB/sec typical 
download rate I've been seeing. (I have no idea what 2 kilobits per 
second of theoretical bandwidth equates to in kilobytes per second of 
*useful* data. In particular, I don't know what percentage TCP adds...)

I left the screen saver running this morning before I left for work. 
Hopefully by the time I get home tonight it will have downloaded at 
least 1 additional sheep.

PS. Do you think changing my firewall to allow incomming connections 
will make any positive difference?

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