spacemuis
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Hi all,
Has anyone ever done a proper test to verify that the reported SAIX (or your ISP's) bandwidth utilisation is accurate?
Perhaps by running an always-on packet counter that measures every byte up and down the wire. Or by using a suitably sophisticated router's traffic reports.
It just seems to me that the amount of data that gets up/downloaded is often exaggerated. Does anybody else share this nagging suspicion that someone, somewhere is not adding up the numbers right? Or adding a few bytes here and there? Or, more likely, using a multiplier X before reporting my bandwidth usage, where X > 1.0?
Suspiciously yours...
spacemuis
Has anyone ever done a proper test to verify that the reported SAIX (or your ISP's) bandwidth utilisation is accurate?
Perhaps by running an always-on packet counter that measures every byte up and down the wire. Or by using a suitably sophisticated router's traffic reports.
It just seems to me that the amount of data that gets up/downloaded is often exaggerated. Does anybody else share this nagging suspicion that someone, somewhere is not adding up the numbers right? Or adding a few bytes here and there? Or, more likely, using a multiplier X before reporting my bandwidth usage, where X > 1.0?
Suspiciously yours...
spacemuis