<div dir="ltr">Also consider wireless. If you are on wireless depending on where you there is a great chance you will not even come close to your max bandwidth. This is because wireless is a shared medium. You are contending with everyone else that is on your channel. This will most definitely impact your throughput.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Very few if anyone uses the Max of their pipe for a prolonged period. If you did it would not be an enjoyable experience. If you were downloading a huge file that consumed all your bandwidth and say wanted to watch youtube while you wait, well good luck with that. In networking there is bandwidth and throughput. Bandwidth is the max that can be transmitted down a link. Throughput is what actually gets transferred. Those number are not the same. There a ton of factors that determine what your throughput actually is. Some examples are upstream congestion, latency, and protocol behavior. None of those reasons have anything to do with 'the ISP is trying to screw me'. A lot of it is the laws of physics and TCP/IP protocol stack. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Here is the rabbit trail – has anyone else calculated the actual bandwidth you could use (continuously) from your ISP and NOT hit their usage cap? Yeah, that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ok, under my plan at Cox, I think I get threatened with extra charges when I reach 1TB of data downloaded. (If your number is different, then use that number
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per month I’m allowed to download. Sounds like a lot, right? Nope:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">1GB/month / 60 seconds/minute / 60 minutes/hour / 24 hours/day / 30 days/month = 385,802 bytes per second!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes, my wonderful 30Mbs max is actually only a 385KB link, if I want to use it all the time.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Balderdash! (Whatever that means).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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