[ale] Internet connectivity question

[Jack Schneider]

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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:07 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> We just moved our Internet connection to a T-1 from CBeyond last week.
>>
>> So far it has been a good experience, but one of our people has a
>> HTTP/FTP/SMTP/POP site he uses (dmares.com).  He tells me it is fast
>> and responsive from his house but it has unusable from here since we
>> moved to CBeyond.
>>
>> >From here (via CBeyond):
>> HTTP (port 80) access seems to be fine.
>>
>> FTP (port 21) and SMTP (port 25) are very slow.
>>
>> POP (port 109) seems to be non-functional.
>>
>> As a test I just did:
>> time telnet dmares.com 25
>> quit
>>
>> It took 1 min 25 seconds to complete, but it did complete.
> 
>>From Comcast in ATL:
> 
> root at blue:~# time telnet mail.dmares.com 25
> Trying 209.150.157.211...
> Connected to mail.dmares.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 plus42.host4u.net ESMTP Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:25:24 -0600
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 plus42.host4u.net closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> real    0m14.417s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.008s
> 
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
> 
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Just a test.
time telnet mail.dmares.com 25
Trying 209.150.157.211...
Connected to mail.dmares.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 plus42.host4u.net ESMTP Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:35:38 -0600
Connection closed by foreign host.

real    7m50.918s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m0.004s

After a 90,000 mile trip..
tn -->Satellite --> NY-->ALE+

8-)

Jack
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