Amadeus W. M. wrote:
That's mega BITS per second. If you use things like gkrellm that
tell you
the speed in BYTES then you need to divide by 8. So you should see
something like 1000/8 = 125 kilo BYTES per second. You should believe your
gkrellm or whatever system tool you're using.
You will also have certain amounts of overhead from PPP, IP, TCP and
whatever protocol your applications use over TCP/IP. And there may well
be other stuff using the connection (e-mail clients checking for new
mail, script-kiddies doing random scanning, Yum checking for updates, etc.)
I find that "divide by ten" is a better rule of thumb: one megabit per
second raw wire speed will give you *around* one hundred kilobytes per
second transfer speed, assuming that the megabit connection is the
bottleneck.
Hope this helps,
James.
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