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Hello,
My previous post concerning FTP problems seems to have gotten dropped. The last question I had was, what is the best way to check and verify my network speed in Mandrake 9.0?
Thanks for the responce, but my system gives "command not found". I even ran su and still same thing. Did a file search on iptrf and no results.
Any other suggestions?
I used iptraf, but it did not show me anything gftp did not. I am only uploading at about 30KB/s. That is horable on a 256KB upload cabable cable connection.
Actually, 30k/s is the maximum you should expect from a 256kbit cable connection. I have the same thing. My download speed is 1.5mbit/s and upload is 256kbit/s
You're not getting faster than 30k/s for the same reason you only get 5k/s or less on a 56k modem... the units are different.
your connection is rated at 256kBITs, not kBYTEs
just divide bits by 8 to get bytes...
32k/s would be the maximum, and with protocol overhead, 30k/s is an expected speed.
MP3s are rated the same way... 128kbits/s is the most common bitrate with comes down to 16kbytes/s (if they were 128kbytes/s each minute would take up 7.5 megabytes instead of 0.9375 megabytes)
you'd have to get a 2mbit upload connection to get 256k/s uploads... I've never seen it offered (to residential users at least) through cable internet.
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