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 <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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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