download speed capped?

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my downloads seem to be capped. I have never been able to download higher that 52.1Kb/s. A true 512kbps line should give me 64Kb/s max but i never see it. I have down loaded a 1 gig file and it never left 52.1Kb/s not higher not lower and this was off saix as well. Any one else notice this or does it just happen to me?

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James, that speed is about right. Even when i was in the UK i couldn't get much more than that on a 512 line.

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Maybe it depends how far you are from the exchange...
I'm getting max speeds of 55k or even 57k sometimes...
 
It's protocol overhead and line use .. on my 348 k package last night at 2:30Am I was downloading at about 55k/s

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divided the kilobits (512) by 10
=~51,2kilobytes, so you're actually getting more than the average speed.


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512Kbps / 8 = 64Kb/s

There is no peace without war!!!
 
Thanks James!

Computers are binary, 1 or 0, base 2, and no integer power of 2 is equal to 10. That is a shocking approximation that I wish people would stop using, 8 bits in a byte, no more, no less.

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"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett
 
just to stir a bit .. it's 11Pm on thursday and I'm getting a steady 70k/sec on my 384 package [:)]


We are Telkom - Resistance is Futile - You will be Assimilated
 
Blob i thought i told u to stop poping those acid tabs man. You seeing things now!

There is no peace without war!!!
 
It's true .. reported by my firewall and also was the time/size calculation ...

We are Telkom - Resistance is Futile - You will be Assimilated
 
sitting at Nescafe at Melrose Arch, using Telkom T-zone, getting 110k/sec, international! Try it
 
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<br />Thanks James!

Computers are binary, 1 or 0, base 2, and no integer power of 2 is equal to 10. That is a shocking approximation that I wish people would stop using, 8 bits in a byte, no more, no less.
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Karnaugh,

Does the protocol used in dsl conform to sync or async protocol? If it's the latter then there are 2 overhead bits/byte, which would mean you divide by 10 not 8.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Karnaugh</i>
<br />"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett
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Colin - I agree with your sentiment about shaping. Problem with having this as your signature is that when I search the forum for 'shaping' I get all your posts whether they are about shaping or not.

This is not intended as a criticism againt your signature as it could equally apply to anybody's signature that has a searched for word in it. Any idea how to disable the signature part of a post when searching a forum. You'd have thought that the search facility would ignore the signature part?
 
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