[GRLUG] An ISP question

[David Pembrook]

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.

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.

Dave

Michael Mol wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> 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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