Well said regarding wireless.
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On Nov 30, 2017, 16:51, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
> Also consider wireless. If you are on wireless depending on where you there
> is a great chance you will not even come close to your max bandwidth. This is
> because wireless is a shared medium. You are contending with everyone else
> that is on your channel. This will most definitely impact your throughput.
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
> <herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Very few if anyone uses the Max of their pipe for a prolonged period. If you
>> did it would not be an enjoyable experience. If you were downloading a huge
>> file that consumed all your bandwidth and say wanted to watch youtube while
>> you wait, well good luck with that. In networking there is bandwidth and
>> throughput. Bandwidth is the max that can be transmitted down a link.
>> Throughput is what actually gets transferred. Those number are not the same.
>> There a ton of factors that determine what your throughput actually is. Some
>> examples are upstream congestion, latency, and protocol behavior. None of
>> those reasons have anything to do with 'the ISP is trying to screw me'. A
>> lot of it is the laws of physics and TCP/IP protocol stack.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Carruth, Rusty <rusty.carr...@smartm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is the rabbit trail – has anyone else calculated the actual bandwidth
>>> you could use (continuously) from your ISP and NOT hit their usage cap?
>>> Yeah, that deserves a different topic, and here it is.
>>>
>>> Ok, under my plan at Cox, I think I get threatened with extra charges when
>>> I reach 1TB of data downloaded. (If your number is different, then use
>>> that number below).
>>>
>>> So, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per month I’m allowed to
>>> download. Sounds like a lot, right? Nope:
>>>
>>> 1GB/month / 60 seconds/minute / 60 minutes/hour / 24 hours/day / 30
>>> days/month = 385,802 bytes per second!
>>>
>>> Yes, my wonderful 30Mbs max is actually only a 385KB link, if I want to use
>>> it all the time.
>>>
>>> Balderdash! (Whatever that means).
>>>
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