Slow downloading

[RandyRiegel]

I have a ADSL connection at my office and at home. Both home and work are the same packages (except work has a static IP). The connections are:

3.0 Mbps downstream / 384 Kbps upstream

When I FTP to the machine connected to the DSL at work and download a file I'm lucky to get 40 Kbps download. Why am I not recieving faster? If my machine at work can send at 384 Kbps why is it only sending my FTP request at 40 Kbps? By the way, this is when noone is on the system at work at all so the should be no other bandwidth there than me downloading the file. Maybe I am misunderstanding the way and upstream works.

Randy

 

[cdogg]

Well, make sure you're not getting transfer speed mixed up with network speed. Kbps stands for Kilobits per second and is related to network bandwidth. KB/s stands for Kilobytes per second and is often associated with actual file transfer rates.

Since there are 8 bits in 1 byte, a 384Kbps upload can transfer files up to 48 KB/s (384 divided by 8).

48KB/s sounds awful close to the speeds you're getting. That's why I wondered if you were getting the two terms confused.


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[RandyRiegel]

Yep that's what I was doing... dooh. So when I look at it I'm downloading and uploading pretty close to the specs of my account.

Randy