Re: What is the actual bandwith you could use, continuously,…

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 <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com>
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.
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> 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).
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> So, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per month I’m allowed to
> download. Sounds like a lot, right? Nope:
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> 1GB/month / 60 seconds/minute / 60 minutes/hour / 24 hours/day / 30
> days/month = 385,802 bytes per second!
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> Yes, my wonderful 30Mbs max is actually only a 385KB link, if I want to
> use it all the time.
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> Balderdash! (Whatever that means).
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