Hi SauroNZA,
I am not going into an argument. But if you read my reply, I stated that i had measured in the middle of the night at 02h00 989Mb/sec. and also during the day for a short moment 28.9Mb /sec. So much for your copper statement. Yes you are right. I did my electronics 55 years ago, lots of 100 Kw radio tubes and 11 GHz beam transmitters and at the beginning of the transistors. This indeed you are right my electronics is not up to date and I like you to teach me how the software is done to allow 10 users to share the speed and that all still have 10 Mb/sec. What means ping, it is a time frame, but why does if vary from test to test. I am not tricking you in an argument, but love to know how it actual works. I remember, when I allowed a staff member to introduce the Unix on a 8 port 16 bit ONYX desk computer into South Africa, I was flabbergasted and did a lot of programming for fun. But today's technology has gone so fast in progress that yes, I have a lack of technical knowledge. Help me out and explain how it in principle works. Thanks Bert
Neither of those are possible. You might see those as a "peak" for a moment in time but that's not a real value and that's why it works on an average over a file size. Look at the final result not what it does in between as it's a measure of a file transferred from the server to your browser over time.
I think you are confusing a great many terms.
Also my copper statement is 100% accurate, but if you want to make up your own facts sure go right again.
You will NEVER see 10 megabits per second on a 10MB DSL line. NEVER, it's physically not possible for the technology.
Also you are misunderstanding some fundamental terms.
Megabits = 10 megabits DSL line.
Megabytes = 1 Megabytes / sec real world measure of what you'll see from the 10Mbit line.
Ping (latency) is the amount of time it takes for a single packet of data to be sent from your client to the server. This will always be different based on distance.
For instance internationally you will generally see a latency of 150ms because that's physically how long it takes to get from your PC to the closest network in SA, to the undersea cable and over it all the way to wherever it needs to go.
On a local network between your phone and your PC it would be 1-5ms depending on many factors.
Locally inside SA it should be less than 30ms in general.
So if you are watching NHL from an American server you are looking at a ping/latency of probably 180-250 ms on DSL and a general drop in overall speed the further away from you that the server is because there are so many different parties involved.
Your 10mbit link will in most cases only perform at full speed and lowest latency to servers inside South Africa.
