My charter account says 10mb/s download. MOST DAYS i get this (say downloading files or getting something from a newsgroup). Lately, I see its at about 4.5 MBps. Just wondering if there is an easy way to monitor this from time to time, seems like the 10mb/s hasn't been consistent as per what I am paying for.
Best way to monitor bandwidth?
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RichUK
Lifer
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its "up to 10mb/s burst" speed actually. You won't get that sustained guaranteed, unless of course, you are paying a lot.
AMCRambler
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Either that or his download speed just got capped. Or maybe somebody else on his cable node is hitting the newsgroups now too. I know my Optimum started out wicked quick, but after a couple of months got slower and slower to the point where I'd start getting lag spikes if anybody else on the router downloaded email while I was playing BF2. If anyone was looking at Youtube I'd start lagging too.
Might be unrelated, but I have one of those Linksys compact wirelessG routers and they are not great for longevity. The wired connections start to get choppy after a couple weeks. i have to unplug the router for 15 seconds, then power it back on to restore my speeds. Most of my speed problems have been adequately restored by doing this to the router or the modem.
BeauJangles
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On this same topic, does anyone know of a good way to monitor traffic coming in and out of your network? I have a Linksys wireless G router, and my roommate and I both use the internet pretty regularly (Skype, MLB.tv, soon slingbox, torrents). Our ISP is capping our transfers (up and down) at 100 gigs. Is there any good way to keep track of what we're transferring?
thanks,
Beau
thanks,
Beau
Download at work and put it on a flash drive.
The premise is that people that download music and movies all the time hog up the bandwidth. Then there are Business People who are using Home prices to do commercial work and downloading business stuff a lot. I think it is time for price control for bandwidth hogs. If you go over the daily or monthly limit they just send you an over-the-limit bill. Why should all the normal people pay for the bandwidth hogs?
That is a good question how do you keep track of bandwidth. They will count every web page you visit. So you may not want to clear you cache of visited pages, because temporarily you store all the images they use on the web pages. I know my daughter probably uses a lot of bandwidth. She likes going to sites and downloading stuff like Anime Episodes and looking at U-Tube content. There is a trend toward video content on the Internet by even people like MSN and CNN.
You could take this personally and tell your ISP that they advertised faster download speeds and that is why you picked their service. So what they are doing is a violation of your contract and it is not what they advertised. You could claim it is false advertising.
Maybe we need charges on the Internet to make content providers offer refunds for low-end bandwidth users and then also charge a premium for high-end bandwidth users.
The premise is that people that download music and movies all the time hog up the bandwidth. Then there are Business People who are using Home prices to do commercial work and downloading business stuff a lot. I think it is time for price control for bandwidth hogs. If you go over the daily or monthly limit they just send you an over-the-limit bill. Why should all the normal people pay for the bandwidth hogs?
That is a good question how do you keep track of bandwidth. They will count every web page you visit. So you may not want to clear you cache of visited pages, because temporarily you store all the images they use on the web pages. I know my daughter probably uses a lot of bandwidth. She likes going to sites and downloading stuff like Anime Episodes and looking at U-Tube content. There is a trend toward video content on the Internet by even people like MSN and CNN.
You could take this personally and tell your ISP that they advertised faster download speeds and that is why you picked their service. So what they are doing is a violation of your contract and it is not what they advertised. You could claim it is false advertising.
Maybe we need charges on the Internet to make content providers offer refunds for low-end bandwidth users and then also charge a premium for high-end bandwidth users.
Well if you are downloading things you should not be looking at or dont have a right to download then that might be a problem. Every job has a different take on what the user is allowed to do. I dont sit at work and download porn all day, but I guess some people kind of frown on that sort of thing. Then there are places that only want you to use the e-mail and that is it.
Still if some ISP advertises faster download speeds, and you went with their services, then hay you are only doing what they advertised.
Still if some ISP advertises faster download speeds, and you went with their services, then hay you are only doing what they advertised.
KMFJD
Lifer
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I have a high(lol)speed internet package that advertises speeds of 2.2mbps down and 300kb up, i am lucky to get download speeds of 30kbs from Fileplanet , doing the tests at Speednet i receive around 340kb down and 120 kbp up, average latency is about 115ms, rural living sucks for internet, this isp is the only one in the area that offers wireless internet.
No matter how fast your download speed is it can't be faster than the upload speed of where you are downloading from.
Drako
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I use Netstat Live to monitor my download speeds. Gives you a quick indication of what your speeds are.
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