May or May not be off-topic...

[Bill Cavalieri]

RR and most ISP's give you the bandwidth measured in kilo bits, and the
absolute maximum on a clear day, when the moon is in alignment with your
data line.

Depending on your cable line quality and signal strength, you could see
less bandwidth or more loss.

You are thinking of the bandwidth in kilo bytes, not in kilo bits.

You can always count on around 10% bandwidth loss, so of your 384 kbits,
you will really only see around 345 kbits.  Now divid the 384 kbits by
8, and you end up with around 43 kbytes/sec.

Getting 34 kb/sec upstream over inexpensive routers is not bad, your
realizing about 272 kbits.

-Bill

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:01, Mick Ohrberg wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> Thanks for your efforts. I still think that seems a little low... Or is that what you can expect? 
I mean, the theoretical upstreams speed should be 384kbps, right?
> 
> 	/Mick
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> | [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of david at dacoto.com
> | Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:44 PM
> | To: kclug at kclug.org
> | Subject: Re: May or May not be off-topic...
> | 
> | 
> | I also use RR, I did a download of your file and it averaged 
> | between 42 and
> | 47kbps. I am on RR cable and behind a Linksys router with 3 other machines
> | on the network.
> | 
> | Not sure if any of this info will help or not.
> | 
> | Dave
> |  
> | > I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time. It's 
> | about the RR
> | > upstreams speed. In short - I have a web/ftp server that won't 
> | let anyone
> | > download stuff (FROM my server) faster than 34kbps. My router 
> | is a Netgear
> | > RT314. The web/ftp server is running RedHat 8.0. Do you think 
> | this is related
> | > to my Linux installation, or the Netgear...or RR?
> | > 
> | > For a test, try to access http://www.ohrberg.org/implosion.mpg
> | (a 15MB mpeg of
> | > the implosion at 8th and Grand last summer).
> | > 
> | 
> | 
> | 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Bill Cavalieri <bcavalieri at gekl.net>