What is a respectable Activity time for paccjets sent.received?

[thecadmancan]

Got some DNS server numbers from DNSserverlist.org. Under the Activity for my Local Area Connection I have 618,222 packets sent, 5,563,455 packets received. The whole reason why I decided to do this was to see about ways I could boost my internet performance. Can someone one help decipher these numbers as well as make any other suggestions to boost performance. I am finding wasy to tweak my router so any ideas in these areas as well would be great! I am still somewhat green in the area. Thanks in advance.

 

[thecadmancan]

I am averaging a download speed of 7221-9445kbps and upload speed of 738-938 kbps

 

[burtsbees]

What equipment (router, switch)? What speed (dl) are you supposed to be getting? What is the air speed velocity of an unlaiden swallow?

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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install windows
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package windows...Thank Goodness!

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

 

[thecadmancan]

I believe it is a fairly slow connection but as to the rate at which I am supposed to get is I do not know. I have a Linksys WRT54G2 with a recent firmware upgrade.

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Check your bill.
If you're paying for 10Mb up and 1Mb down, then you're getting what you pay for.

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

er...down/up, you know what I mean...

 

[burtsbees]

What, Vince? Uh um, I don't know that...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install windows
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package windows...Thank Goodness!

 

[thecadmancan]

I am paying for a typical Broadband connection. My concern is my connections are now going from 13mb down to 6 Megs down and that is with no activity on my part. I am thinking maybe someone has hi-jacked a connection to my router but am unsure how to tell. Recently I stopeed broadcasting my SSID (I beleive thats what its called).

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Disable the wireless (just unscrew the aerial maybe) and use an ethernet lead instead, see if the traffic changes.

get onto your router and check the DHCP scope - are any other addresses issued? Edit the scope so it only issues addresses to your MAC address(es) and no others.

 

[thecadmancan]

I'll check and let you know. Thanks!