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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 44696" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>On a 1.5MBit cable connection 146kbytes is about the maximum speeds you should see. Anything more than that and you are running at more than 1.5mbit. (if my calculations are correct)</p><p></p><p>Remember also that 1.5Mbit is your total transfer speed, if you are receiving a file at 100kbytes a sec you are actually transferring quite a bit more than 100kbytes a sec, things like TCP headers and confirmation packets and so on all eat up your bandwidth, sometimes up to 10% of your connection can be TCP overhead, bandwidth you use but never actually see. So if you see a 170bytes/sec actual file transfer you are doing very well for a 1.5mit connection, either exceeding your cap or the program that is telling you this is not accurate.</p><p></p><p>Getting fantastic speed just after they increased your connection was, like you say, probably just Blueyonder sorting out your cap, and now that it is in place there is not much you can do to increase it, except pay for a faster connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 44696, member: 175235"] On a 1.5MBit cable connection 146kbytes is about the maximum speeds you should see. Anything more than that and you are running at more than 1.5mbit. (if my calculations are correct) Remember also that 1.5Mbit is your total transfer speed, if you are receiving a file at 100kbytes a sec you are actually transferring quite a bit more than 100kbytes a sec, things like TCP headers and confirmation packets and so on all eat up your bandwidth, sometimes up to 10% of your connection can be TCP overhead, bandwidth you use but never actually see. So if you see a 170bytes/sec actual file transfer you are doing very well for a 1.5mit connection, either exceeding your cap or the program that is telling you this is not accurate. Getting fantastic speed just after they increased your connection was, like you say, probably just Blueyonder sorting out your cap, and now that it is in place there is not much you can do to increase it, except pay for a faster connection. [/QUOTE]
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