Never too Fast but this is quite fast enuff... I take it back.
Not too long ago, I posted something about the "super" speed of my ISP...
http://bikers_b.blogs.friendster.com/a_bikers_life/2006/07/never_too_fast_.html
Well... Not too long ago they also claimed to have "upgraded" all of their 6.5mbps users to 12mbps for free.
Comparing speed of the screenshot of the previous post... a blazing 700++kbps... Wow!!!
Currently, the speed is supposed to be 12MBPS...
look @ the speed.
*The file that is being downloaded is from the same link given from Apple's iTunes...
Point to remember... With the free upgrade it's supposed to be almost 2 times faster...
But the speed was... 20kbps.
Note, IE somehow also have integrated Bittorrent as their "default" download agent or that bittorrent somehow linked itself as the default download agent.
And the bit rate for bit torrent was...
even worse... 8kbps!!!
*These 2 screen captures were done in less than 10 min interval...
Well... to be fair... there are some possibilities...
1. This is a new software and millions of people are downloading this @ the same time causing the bandwidth to be this little.
2. Apple is on a budget cut & and lowered their bandwidth.
3. 1 + 2 & also that the whole block in my place has their ISP & SCV turned on.
Extracts from Wiki
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
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Traffic shaping is an attempt to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth.
Traffic shaping deals with concepts of classification, queue
disciplines, enforcing policies, congestion management, quality of
service (QoS), and fairness.
ISPs
Traffic shaping is of interest especially to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Their high-cost, high-traffic networks are their major assets, and as such, are the focus of all their attentions. They often use traffic shaping as a method to optimize the use of their network (sometimes by intelligently shaping traffic according to importance, other times by discouraging uses of applications by harsh means).
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Please read the link above for more details.
Whatever the reason may be...
1 thing that is for sure... I am not getting the speed that I used to be getting.
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