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archnixie

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Registered: 2019-03-08

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[SOLVED] Conky download speed never above 20 Mbit?

Hi there,

Running Conky 1.11.3_pre with openbox on a pretty new and up to date arch installation. All works well except that the Conky's download speed never goes above 20 Mbit, even though I have a much higher connection.

${downspeedgraph eno1 25,200 ADFFE9 FF972E} ${upspeedgraph eno1 25,200 ADFFE9 FF972E}
Down: ${downspeed eno1}/s (${totaldown eno1}) $alignr Up: ${upspeed eno1}/s (${totalup eno1})

Nothing special really. My computer has 2 network cards, but am using only one (eno1)

If I run

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -

to test my download speed in termite, I get a good speed, typically around 150 Mbit,

Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by xx-networks (XXX) [XXX km]: 24.452 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 159.24 Mbit/s

but Conky never shows more than 20 Mbit. What could be the problem?

Here the output of ifconfig:

eno1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet xxx  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.178.255
        inet6 xxx  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 xxx prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 xxx  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether xxx  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2127527  bytes 2746918853 (2.5 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 975  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 434879  bytes 100512488 (95.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 16  memory 0xa1300000-a1320000  

enp2s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether xxxx  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device memory 0xa1200000-a121ffff  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 6340  bytes 438764 (428.4 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6340  bytes 438764 (428.4 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp3s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether xxx  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Last edited by archnixie (2019-03-08 22:55:12)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Conky download speed never above 20 Mbit?

160 Mb = 20 MiB

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Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Conky download speed never above 20 Mbit?

That all looks correct to me. 20MB/s is 160Mb/s as there are 8 bits(b) in a byte(B).

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archnixie

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Re: [SOLVED] Conky download speed never above 20 Mbit?

Now I feel stupid (rightly so)
Thanks guys! Much appreciated.