Afrihost Shaping Policy

[Blinking]

This is a basic question, what does the following imply?

Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P

That I get 18.8% speed when downloading?

Thanks!

 

[Hectic]

you get 18.8% of your line speed. So you lose 81.2% of you line speed when you download http.

Speedtest shows 3400kbps on my 4Mbps line.
3400kbps ÷ 8 =425kB/s
425kB × 18.8% =79kB/s for http.

P2P works out at about 26kB/s
But most of the time I only get 10 - 13 on P2P.

 

[Blinking]

Thanks RoMark

 

[pedruid]

you get 18.8% of your line speed. So you lose 81.2% of you line speed when you download http.

Speedtest shows 3400kbps on my 4Mbps line.
3400kbps ÷ 8 =425kB/s
425kB × 18.8% =79kB/s for http.

P2P works out at about 26kB/s
But most of the time I only get 10 - 13 on P2P.

+1 the best layman's description I've ever read. Now I understand my ridiculous speeds.

 

[ProAsm]

Speedtest shows 3400kbps on my 4Mbps line.
3400kbps ÷ 8 =425kB/s

Not being picky but it's actually 3400kbps ÷ 9 = 377kb/s as there are 8 bits + 1 stop bit to every byte.
Puts on flame jacket

 

[ph4t3]

Not being picky but it's actually 3400kbps ÷ 9 = 377kb/s as there are 8 bits + 1 stop bit to every byte.
Puts on flame jacket

I actually find this interesting.

Any source of proof or wiki or whatever?

 

[Sinbad]

No there aren't stop bits. This isn't analogue modem stuff ;-)
There is a reasonable amount of ip packet overhead though.

 

[ProAsm]

No there aren't stop bits. This isn't analogue modem stuff ;-)
There is a reasonable amount of ip packet overhead though.

LOL, then if you really want to get picky then there is 19 bytes overhead for every 128 byte packet which equates closer to 9.5 bits per byte

 

[Sinbad]

LOL, then if you really want to get picky then there is 19 bytes overhead for every 128 byte packet which equates closer to 9.5 bits per byte

128 byte? Mtu is closer to 1500

 

[ProAsm]

Ok, I admit defeat....
Guess I'm outa your league