[PLUG] OT:Intenet connection speed

Michael Montagne michael at themontagnes.com
Wed Dec 3 09:43:01 UTC 2003


I'm using this site:
http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth

>On 12/03/03, AthlonRob busted out the keyboard and typed:

> 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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