-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > --[PinePGP]--------------------------------------------------[begin]-- > Thanks. I was always under the impression that KbpS and Kb/S were both > interchangeable, and stood for Kilobytes per second. > > I notice that lynx the cat reports download speeds in Kb/s, while the > statistics page of my ADSL modem reports the speed in KbpS. Knowing > that they're both different, and that one is Kilobits, while the other > is Kilobytes, 1360 KbPs is a lot closer to 1536 KbpS. Doing some > calculations shows me that I should be getting 192 Kb/S max, but I > suppose I should take into account the bandwidth of other machines, > and the latency of the net in general. Yes. The other thing to consider i that with such a large differential between upstream and downstream bandwidth, you may, if downloading several things at once, come up against the problem that your upstream bandwidth iss insufficient to cope with all the ackn packets you're having to send, thus throttling your download peed. You can help this problem by using the traffic shaper. Thi is a common problem with high-speed adsl lines. Cheers. - -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA2YE9wSvm+r8Xc4gRAv2YAJ9Zlm7Xq2R8GBGGXS2UP7vCG2jiZgCfQoOl SIH5SVwgUGYHDYn3YhxZFHU= =JudM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
