slightly OT: Internet weirdities

[Willy K. Hamra]

I was "apt-get"ing a few programs, and was with a lot of pain watching
the speed counting in bytes per second, something around 200
bytes/second! i thought it might be a bad night for downloading, ISP
overloaded or something, i tried pinging google, but the ping went very
well, with fast responses, so i thought i might try pinging
archive.ubuntu.com, maybe the servers are overloaded, and to my
astonishment as soon as the pinging started the download went straight
to 12 KiB/sec  which is quite well for my 128 kbps, but got me wondering
why such stuff happens? is it ISP related or something to do my PC?

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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