[PLUG] OT:Intenet connection speed

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Wed Dec 3 09:35:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:16, Michael Montagne wrote:
> A question about acceptable performance for a T1 line.  We just
> switched providers and I'm seeing less than pleasing performance on my
> connection speed.  Our line is 512kbps and I know that some drop is
> expected during peak hours but yesterday I measured from 60kbps to
> 227kbps during the work day then up to 453kbps at about 6:00 pm.  Are
> these numbers to be expected from a T1 line?

Interesting... I hadn't realized they made T1 lines that slow.

I thought a T1 line, by definition, was 1.54Mbps.

How are you measuring that speed?

Rob





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