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runny6play

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Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 85

bandwith limit

Websites like speedtest.net are giving me speeds of 2 Mb/S download speed. (broadband cable connection...(although a crappy one)while the most i can get out of my can get out of my computer is 400-600 kb/s and im not sure why or how speedtest is getting this number from my computer when my computer is maxing out at 400-600 kb/s im wondering if its an MTU issuse, tcp scaling issuse (although in theory i shouldn't be able to connect then) or what. Ive done some reasearch but I don't know enough about linux networking to find out and cannot find detailed enough enformation (probably searching in the wrong places.....) any tip, /advice for fixing or squeezing more bandwith out of connetion/ computer would be most appercaited

WorMzy

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Re: bandwith limit

Mb/s = megabits per second
kB/s = kilobytes per second

1 Mb = ~125kB

ISPs like to tell you you're getting megabits per second, since that sounds like you're getting megabytes per second. To a layman it's pretty easy to confuse the two.

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runny6play

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Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 85

Re: bandwith limit

Thanks I was getting the converison rate wrong. I am now sure its my network.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: bandwith limit

400kB is way over 2 Mb, so I'm not sure if this was about the units conversion at all.
How did you measure that 400-600 kbps download speed?