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. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. < herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Carruth, Rusty > wrote: > >> 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 deserves a different topic, and here it is. >> >> >> >> 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 below). >> >> >> >> So, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per month I’m allowed to >> download. Sounds like a lot, right? Nope: >> >> >> >> 1GB/month / 60 seconds/minute / 60 minutes/hour / 24 hours/day / 30 >> days/month = 385,802 bytes per second! >> >> >> >> Yes, my wonderful 30Mbs max is actually only a 385KB link, if I want to >> use it all the time. >> >> Balderdash! (Whatever that means). >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >