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OT, Internet Service prices
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:50:22 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
wrote: On 19/09/2019 03.40, Paul wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: On 19/09/2019 00.12, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:22:32 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: The cable co here advertises (download) speeds up to 1G. From what I hear from users, it's actually around 700M (or lower). I wonder how those users are coming to that conclusion. Actual usage, for which it's not easy to test accurately, or so-called speed test sites. I'd trust actual users if I knew how they were testing. Not many computers can sustain that speed. I can't transfer files in my LAN at that speed, for instance. Closer to 700 or 800. Check whether the LAN on each machine uses PCI Express for the GbE NIC. That should help out. Can't. One machine is a "Cubi N" MSI mini PC. Rather laptop hardware in a small box. Another is actually a laptop, a Lenovo Yoga 30011IBR. And the desktop machine has the network hardware integrated in the board. Then there is the issue that rotating rust hard disks can produce in optimal conditions on a normal computer about 150 Mb/s at best. Contiguous sectors. Much less under actual multitasking usage, and processing overhead (encryption, compression...). You could use something like iperf3 to isolate the network from the rotating rust. It uses a client-server model and no file is written to disk. Received bits are counted, timed, and dropped on the floor. (https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php) |
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