Connection speed

[danaeris]

So, when I try to download stuff, I seem to be getting a 34.5 kbytes/s download speed.

From my parent's connection, they're getting just under 50 kbytes/s. But when I go to network information in their control panel, it claims the speed is 100 mbps.

It's a cable modem, from cogeco, that connects to my Linksys wireless and ethernet router, and from there I use wireless and my parents connect to the router with an ethernet cable.

Anyone know what gives? Could it be my router, or is Cogeco cheating us?

Edit Looks like, assuming that we are paying for Cogeco Lite, we are in fact getting what we paid for. In other words, not bloody much.

Comments

[nathanjw]

100 mbps is the link between the wired machine and the modem. it's the standard Ethernet speed these days - fast, but irrelevant.

I'm not sure about your nomenclature. Are you getting 34.5 and 50 k*bit*/s or k*byte*s? The former is barely above dialup speed; the latter is perfectly normal - even pretty good - cable/DSL speed.

[nathanjw]

Er, I missed an order of magnitude. "Normal" cable/DSL speed should be in the range of 1-4 Mbit/s, depending on what you're paying for, or something like 125-500 kByte/s. So something seems slow. Be careful about what you're testing against; it's easy to hit something that's more limited than you are.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

The numbers I was giving were kBYTES per second; my apologies for the lack of clarity.

Our download speed is advertised as "up to 300 Kbps" with a maximum use of 2 GB (!).

According to the "test your speed" link, this is what our connection is doing right now:
Your download speed : 287532 bps, or 280 kbps.
A 35 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 143189 bps, or 139 kbps.

So, I guess it IS as advertised, but what we're paying for is not a very fast connection.

[marius23.livejournal.com]

FWIW here's a link that purports to measure your actual download and upload speeds: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/.

[digital-space.livejournal.com]

From here on Rogers, I have a theoretical down speed of 3Mbs. In reality, any web server that I am downloading from will not transfer files anywhere near that speed. For normal browsing, you are seeing appropriate speeds. When downloading files, though, things should go quicker, unless you are using a peer-to-peer system like Bitorrent, Kazaa, Ares, or any one of a billion others. In these cases, you are limited by the sender's PC.