I have Comcast. Comcast download speed is higher than the upload speed wrt a workstation. From your server's perspective the speed nomenclature is reversed. The speed that a client connected to your server sees is the 'upload' speed. I have not measured my speeds in quite a while. IIRC, the quoted dnld speed is 3 Mpbs and upload is 1.5 Mbps. (as seen from a ws running a client) For running a home server one would like the numbers to be reversed, but that is not possible unless you sign up for an upgraded service. Comcast also has "Power boost' which basically throttles up the dnload speed for the first 10 MB of data, then throttles it down after that. It does a similar thing for the first 5 MB of uploaded data. This basically means that you must know the size of the file being transfered to get a realist number. I don't know of any Apache speed settings...To my knowledge, Comcast does not 'detect Apache'...they just manage bandwidth and don't care about what client or server is running. I have had ppl tell me that Comcast blocks http requests on port 80, and 8080. I've called two different service centers in PA, one east and one west, and got the same answer: no port blocking or bw control for 80 or 8080 port services. A router dropping packets might account for some loss, but not the amount you are seeing. Hmmm would adjusting the MTU help? -J On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:35 AM, liketo findoutwhy <liketofindoutwhy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was running Apache 2.2 on a residential user account. If I try > speedtest.net, my uplink is about 10Mbps. But if I set up Apache and then > try downloading from my other ISP (AT&T DSL), I only can download at about > 20 kByte / s... which is about 160 kbps. Is there something I should set > for Apache to make it go faster? Or can Comcast be detecting that it is > Apache and thus limiting it to 160kbps? If that's the case, is there a way > to make it go faster for some bigger files, such as using an FTP server > also? thanks very much. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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