My LAN never is more than 1% utilization , is that normal ?

[phpdog]

See in the Windows Task Manager in Networking , my LAN usually never passes 1% of Utilization it is always under 0.5% of use ?

That seems like a very little amount to be using , why does it not use more ?

 

[spidey07]

that is a meter of your LAN utilization - if you have no work for your LAN then it is not utilized (think processor)

copy a huge (100s of MB) file and see what happens.

On a 100 meg ethernet even 1% utilization is a blazing 1 megabit/sec.

 

[phpdog]

ahh right , Its a GigaBit LAN 100 Mbps ... i was downloading Fedora .ISO's and it was at like 1% i was hoping it would go faster im on 600Kbps but it dosent seem like it when your downloading files of that size .

 

[BurnItDwn]

600 kbit/sec is 0.6% of 100mbit.
When downloading from the internet you will never achieve more then 0.6% utilization.

(Unless you meant 600 kilobytes per second .. which is about 5 mbit .... then you would max out at about 5% when downloading from the internet)

Now if you were copying files from one computer on your network to another computer on your network, you should be able to get a LOT more speed, typically about 40 to 60 mbits/sec (maybe 80 to 90 mbit if your system has awesome I/O capabillities and an insanely fast CPU)

 

[ScottMac]

.....and just because you can receive at ~1.5-3Mbps, doesn't mean the site is going to send at that rate (depends on their bandwidth and server loads).

If you try downloading ISOs from Fedora at the peak times, you're usually lucky to get a couple Kbps.

FWIW

Scott

 

[alent1234]

at work we have a HP file server with 400GB of space that is used for people's home directories. It has two NIC's and we have them in a teamed config that gives us 200Mbps of bandwith. Once in a while I check it during peak times and it never goes above 1%. Once it hit 50% and that was only when we were transfering data to it from other servers.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: alent1234
at work we have a HP file server with 400GB of space that is used for people's home directories. It has two NIC's and we have them in a teamed config that gives us 200Mbps of bandwith. Once in a while I check it during peak times and it never goes above 1%. Once it hit 50% and that was only when we were transfering data to it from other servers.

yeah, it will only peak when it is used - very much like a processor.

 

[phpdog]

Ok thanks i see how the Windows Network monitor works now . 🙂

My speed is 745.9 Kbps / 91.4 K bytes/secso i would max out at 0.75% in Windows XP network monitor , right ?