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Slow Internet / Cap Settings?

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olds

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We have very slow Internet at work. They are looking into it.

But I have run speedtest.net at 6 AM when I am the only one here. 1.33Mbps.
Just now, with 20 employees on different work stations, I ran it again on 3 different machines, all right at 1.4 Mbps.

Can the employer be capping the work stations at a certain level? If they were, what's that called?

Seems like they would know if they were. But often one hand here doesn't know what the other is doing.

TIA
 
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If you want to see the termed used and an example to software approach, you can see it here.

http://www.softperfect.com/products/bandwidth/

However, there few ways to do so (if at all). It can be via software, hardware, Router, Severs, and few other ways.

This is the Kind of thing that had to be discussed first with who ever is in Charge of IT.

Or if there is an outside vendor, get permission to talk to the vendor.



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Then some one that is familiar with the topology of the Network has to start stewp by step diagnostic to find the point of slow down.


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I think I am getting 3-6 Mbps at home with Universe DSL. 1.4 might be due to a shared pipe or something like that. One might ask what you are doing at a business that you need faster than that. Sometimes if you have things like IP phones or a firewall or servers there could be all kinds of reasons for a slowdown. You can get things like people invading your e-mail server or something like spam filters or other pesky things that can slow your access down. There could even be someone else on your network using up your network speed with a file server or game server. It would not be the first time some jack-o-lope of an employee was running a smut or child porn server on some office network.

I would suggest first that you see what the rated speed your IT staff is paying for and work from the top down. Usually there is a router at the top connecting to the Internet. Then there may be a SPAM filter and/or a firewall and then some switches and servers.
 
I am on the road. I believe the ISP is ATT. IT forwarded an email to me where they asked ATT about another "circuit".
 
There could be many factors as to way it is slow for the one user. Computer, could be a nic issues, could be something the user is running that slows down the network (takes up bandwidth).
 
It sounds like you have a 1.5 QoS, which result in 1.2 - 1.4mbps speeds. It's kinda strange that IT has no idea, are you sure they didn't just say it's normal? I doubt any kind of network saturation if those exact speeds are experienced consistently across different workstations and different time of day.

Has this always been the speed you get or this is a new issue? I've seen "circuit" be used interchangeably with TN or STN, referring to the line your connection uses. Maybe your company is upgrading.
 
It has always been this slow and my coworkers have tolerated it. I am fairly new here and I whined.
 
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