768 Kb/s= ~ 70 kB/sec. You have to taken into account the overhead in the packets which roughly is a factor 10 to translate Kb/s to kB/s. I have a cable connection which is much faster (here in Holland at least) than ADSL and regularly have download speeds of 120 - 150 kB/s. Joep
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:42, James Neave wrote: > Hi, > > 768Kb/s = 96KB/s or 93KB/s depending on what your ISP considers a Kilo. > > I have 1024 over 256 cable, I very VERY rarely see one connection hit > more than 70. If I want a fast download, I use Getright and use 3 or 4 > different sources. Does anyone else think that all this massive increase > in downstream by ISPs (as a marketing tool) is outstripping the > resources of the poor old creaky internet? > > That's just practical thinking though, I don't know any technical > reasons you could be running slow. Sorry :P > > James. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Nosko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 April 2004 23:11 > To: leaf > Subject: [leaf-user] Is my NIC the bottleneck? > > pn] I'm still running E2B on a P166. I have 768K > SDSL, and my leaf box is connected to the DSL modem > via a 10Mbps NIC. The best speed I can download from > anywhere is in the 70something KB/sec (as reported on > a Windows box on the internal network). I "think" I > should be able to do faster downloads, but am not sure > where I'm getting bottlenecked. > > ===== > > ----- > Peter Nosko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > This is a good place for a tagline. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door OpenProtect en lijkt schoon te zijn. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
