I have the middle DSL connection through city west " 1.5 MB connection. "
Speedtest confirms this. 1600 KB = 1.5625 MB
When I do a download however the most I can get is 200 kB. it does not matter if it is a file, a form, or I notice it most on “VUZE”. Are they capping download speeds??
Any torrent will stop at 200kb some times 205 if I am lucky.
I called and asked and was told that 200kB was 2 mb. Any conversion chart will tell you this is not true. 200 kB = 0.19531 MB
Yes, you have it right. Nerds usually use B for Byte and b for bits.
1 Byte = 8 bits.
1 KB = 8 Kb
1 MB = 8 Mb
So yeah, 200 range of KBytes/second is nearly 2 Mbits/second. There’s protocol overhead as well, so you’re never going to get the exact 2Mbits, which would be 256kBytes/second.
If you have 1.5Mbit connection, that’s 1536Kbits/sec, divided by 8 and you’ll get 192KBytes/second.
Heh heh, there’s neat little trick I learned yesterday.
You can set speedtest.net and speakeasy as exceptions in the BW manager. When the pipe reaches 55% load, it throttles torrents down to 32KB.
[quote=“herbie_popnecker”]Heh heh, there’s neat little trick I learned yesterday.
You can set speedtest.net and speakeasy as exceptions in the BW manager. When the pipe reaches 55% load, it throttles torrents down to 32KB.[/quote]
Sneaky!
How does it handle completely encrypted torrent traffic?
It actually doesn’t… it only goes by your ‘traffic use history’. They’re not too revealing as to exactly how in the man, but it appears to prioritize the ports. http & mail top, built in voip/video QOS settings and you can exempt any port manually.
Has nice ntop reports too.
IP xxx shows up traffic > down, log shows ‘penalties’ to that IP. He’s got computer on 24/7 running Limewire.
IP xxy shows traffic up> down but no penalties. SERVER!
Cross reference with the phone logs, and guess what… the top 12 service complainers ARE the top 12 bandwidth hogs.
If it wasn’t shared APs, I wouldn’t care. But it’s already cost $5K in BW management hardware.
I should be democratic like Facebook. Send everyone a note:
12 bandwidth hogs are overloading the system and cost us $1000 month extra.
Please choose
a>I would like to “share” that cost by everyone paying an extra $7 a month
b>I think it should be user pay. Those 12 should pay $80 a month extra.
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So Nothing about bits or bytes, actually looks like they are using some slang form " Megs" and just “K”. I noticed in the cable Internet section they do use “Mb/s”
Do you have any idea how many people have packed their system and a 2nd network card in to have it installed? Even for the ‘brand new free’ computers Telus sent them.
Does CityWest offer “freebees” for signing punitive long-term contracts too? Or just better monthly rates? (Now marketed as “price protection”)