-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I've been wondering about this for a while now, and thought I'd get some input on it. I'm on a ADSL connection, and my downstream speed is supposed to be 1536 KbpS, and my upstream is supposed to be 128 KbpS. My network setup is as follows. The ADSL modem is connected to my server which is a pIII 600 MHz, with 384 Mb of ram. Other machines on my LAN have access to the internet via iptables on the server. My second ethernet interface on the server is connected to a 100 MbpS switch, which all the other boxes are connected to. All the network cards in all my boxes are 100 MbpS. I've noticed that when downloading things with lynx the cat on my server, the highest download speed I ever got was 170 Kbps, the lowest was about 20 KbpS, but on average, download speeds are about 150 KbPs. Thinking that the speed should be higher, I ran a speed test at dslspeedtest.com using my windblows box (the test didn't work with lynx/links), with the windblows box connection going through the switch, which is connected to the server machine. The test told me that my speed is about 700 KbpS. I then plugged the ADSL modem directly into the windblows box, made sure my ie cache was cleaned out, and tried the test again. This time around, I was told my speed was 1 MbpS. My question is, with the downstream speed I mentioned earlier, should I be able to get downloads on the machine connected to the ADSL modem at 170 KbpS max, or should they be higher then that? Thanks. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA1KtH7s9z/XlyUyARAhGjAKCVx4sC0cbSQrlX8QAdbNu5SqYhPgCbBBxN oKZJOAGSEGd7cDf3/enXzCg= =0Iw5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
