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At that speed you may be able to see how fast other people's pipes are
as well. I know companies that host their customers on a single T1
(1.5/1.5). This is perfectly fine if they aren't over utilizing their
pipe and don't handle a lot downloads.<br>
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If you want to see your single connection best speed, try downloading a
Linux ISO from a close by EDU ftp server. Unless things have changed,
they don't tend to cap them. I don't see over 500k/sec down on my dsl
so I can't test it.<br>
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Dave<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 8/10/06, Bob Kline <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com"><bob.kline@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have the Comcast 8M / 800K package.
Independent of the time of day, I get
something like 6Mbps down from some
sites, and typically 640Kbps up to my
web hosting site, using FTP.
Now, if I use two or more FTP jobs to
transfer data to/from my web hosting site
I invariably get the full 8M / 800K. I
'm just curious why this would be. I'm
temped to say it's not Comcast, since
I do get the full rates under certain
circumstances. Why my web hosting
site would limit a single stream to 640Kbps
up, if it is, I have no idea - I will contact them
and ask.
In the mean time, any thoughts here, or
similar experiences?
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Would "certan circumstances" be such where the data transfer consisted
of multiple data streams? (Like download accelerators and p2p
clients?)
Comcast might have a cap on the throughput of individual TCP streams.
Seems likely, especially if they expect customers to have more than
one simultaneous user to a particular account. It would certainly make
for an easy way to keep one user from hogging all the bandwidth, and
thus reduces complaint calls about "My internet is slow!"
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