From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 21:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D9B637B629 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 17626 invoked by uid 1074); 13 Apr 2000 04:11:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200004130245.e3D2jVY23622@cytosine.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > Do you know what might be the cause of these slow speeds at times? > Because I usually go around 250kbytes/sec on the average. And > if I'm lucky I can get up to 500kbytes/sec. 500kbytes will probably read as 500KB. While 500kbits will read 500Kb. Please note the case of the "b's", KB and Kb. As far as I know the cable modems through AT&T are limited to 1.5 Mbits per second. This only translates to 187KBytes, again note the case. In other words at the cable modems most optimum speed it can only do 187KByte per second. The fastest burst speed I've ever seen out of my cable modem is ~1.4Kbits per second. Or, 175KBytes. If you're getting 500KBytes per second on a $40 Internet connection I want to move to your neighborhood! ;) David Software Eng. - NetManage Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu ICQ 21106703 Washington State Resident To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message