Can this be right?

howardb

howardb

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Hi All
Take a look at the attached screenshot of my Bandwidth Monitor prog for my PC that I took today - I am with Imagine-IPS and have used this little app to keep track of personal and business use traffic...

BM Screenshot

...anyways, my eyes nearly fell out of my head when I got home today and saw this! Check out the peaked max upload speed! (and the d/l ain't too bad either, for a 512/256 anyway...) - if this speed is possible on the existing ADSL networks, then why are Telkom telling us that the max is 1024/256???

Just a thought (I'm dreaming of a 3MB/s downstream...) :)

cheers
HB
 
3 things can happen here...

1. Like u said (prob not)
2. A network computer (on ur lan) sent a file to this PC at 3 mb/s (this is prob what has happened unless this pc is not on a lan)
3. A brain fart ie like with IE when u start downloading something and for a second the download speed seems to be very high at the beginning (had it at 500 kb/s, i'm on 384) and then slowly returns to normal. (It does this because just before u save the file as something it is already downloading and only starts the timer after u click save, so the average is out). The same thing can happen if the pc was under load and this program lost a few seconds of processing time while downloading and then once it get some CPU time it sees that a chunk has been downloaded in what it percives in 1 second when in reality it was over x number of seconds... I hope i explained myself well enough, this is just what i have noticed with programs like that.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
3 things can happen here...

1. Like u said (prob not)
2. A network computer (on ur lan) sent a file to this PC at 3 mb/s (this is prob what has happened unless this pc is not on a lan)
3. A brain fart ie like with IE when u start downloading something and for a second the download speed seems to be very high at the beginning (had it at 500 kb/s, i'm on 384) and then slowly returns to normal. (It does this because just before u save the file as something it is already downloading and only starts the timer after u click save, so the average is out). The same thing can happen if the pc was under load and this program lost a few seconds of processing time while downloading and then once it get some CPU time it sees that a chunk has been downloaded in what it percives in 1 second when in reality it was over x number of seconds... I hope i explained myself well enough, this is just what i have noticed with programs like that.
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#2 is very common with me - at times I have heart failure when I see I downloaded 40GB in a day - only to realise it was a file transer between server and workstation!
 
Beforce long that statement is gonna get twisted and turned to Telkoms evil ends.
 
thanks for the comments chaps - I don't have any other PC's permanatly connnected to this PC - and when I do connect a laptop occasionally, I disable the BM program temporarily - must be something to do with point 3 Scooby Doo made...
cheers, HB
 
Yeah. And no prizes for guessing how much it will cost... and how quickly you'll get through your 3Gb cap!!
 
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