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Boosting cable speed on FAST services is NOT possible past certain speeds and setups.

Someone wrote . Well, not quite so...

Someone should also tell that nothing can be done if you have one regular PC connected to cable service >20Mbit/s.
You will NEVER get 90% of the advertised speed, never. No matter what kind of modem or the rest of your rig you have.
If you could plug your PC directly to main fiber you still wouldn't get the full speed.

That is because "PC" can handle fairly small amount of data internally.
In other words : The maximum "speed" of PC:s data handling is lower than the speed of the cable input.
Even if you own fairly hi-end PC (will cost more than pocket money..) you will never get the full (DOWNLOAD) speed.
There is nothing you can do about it ---> No need (no rational reason) to buy >20Mbit/s service.
 
The full speed of fast cable service is in use when you have 2 or more HIGH QUALITY PC:s, for example, doing downloading.
This is the only way to benefit from services over 20Mbit/s. (And you don't have to tweak...).

P.S. Well assembled PC (made from quality components..) can handle data maybe at the speed of 20..30Mbit/s MAX
(depends greatly what hardware / software is used..).

Damn, how'd I miss this ?            I'll second that  !

I know this, more than well, and I didn't even say that there is some cap. I wrote that there is no point getting superfast connection service only for the exitement of having one and because "they sold it cheap..".

I did exaggerate on some parts for a reason...

Sure...they offer free games too...( this gategory motherboard are free today if you know where to go and get them..)

So, you are trying to say that it's a kind of a "feature" when client MUST tweak and search (for rest of his/hers life..) to get almost the speed they have bought ? They should stalk the right moment with their tweaked and twisted protocol to get the adverticed speed for just a short moment of download...

Do you really say that it's advisable to use both LANs on dual GBit motherboard for downloading ? Well, be my guest...

I've had dual GBit motherboards for years (like on this Maximus Formula) and other gear that should give the speed it's advertized to give. The true speed of HW is not directly related to the text saying what it's hoped to be. This has been tested during several years on multiple setups and methods.


I have seen the light....
Really...what kind of network do you have inside the university ? Internet ? 

True, on special network setups you can naturally get top speeds. How many average home users do have such connection type to net ? Not many.
I didn't know that this site is only for students that are using direct connections to mainframe...


In other words, mostly you don't have stable speed.
I'm on 40/2 and I get 21 300Kbit/s +- 2000 (about 2.7 MB/s) down as average. That is as "stable" as it can be but that's INSIDE country. I don't get that if I download from Australia or Siberia.
If you get occassionally 2.8 MB/s (which is over the 24/2.5 theoretical speed..), that's ok, but that is not the speed you can call stable. That's only a random burst speed.

The real misinformation is when someone is trying to convince someone else that it is natural to get 90% of advertized speed on any pile of crapware. No matter of distances etc.
I would call it a fraud.

P.S.  If it's somehow limited or forbidden to write negative (the real world..) things here then I'm really sorry. I guess you have to ban me.

My theory is, the faster your internet the less likly a server can meet your "max" demands.  You are correct KBolt, when you say that downloading from obscure servers on the other side of the world don't result in good speeds.  Let me see if I can word this properly.  If the servers, distance, and network traffic (all things out of your control) were left in a state of "perfection", then your hardware will often put you within 90% of your advertized speed.

If there are 8 bits in a byte then RTB has a 3 megabyte/sec download and 0.3125 megabyte/sec upload.  Reaching 2.8 of 3 mbyte is greater then 90%.

Lets say a really "slow" old hard drive can read/write at 20 mbyte/sec.  Thats 160mbit/sec.  Even that is plenty for 100Mbps cat5 cable.

Another use of the word stable:  While watching a moving on gametrailers.com I am stable at 3.6Mbps download for 20 seconds.  Now you might say, "But you have a 10Mbps connection."  Thats true.  By clicking on the movie statistics you will find it is playing at 3.3Mbps, thus the server is only giving me 300Kbps more then I need to watch the video smoothly.  I believe this is to keep demand on their servers low so they can better cater to "the masses."

To conclude:  When the world around you is running smoothly (network wise), the majority of users can reach 90% of advertized speeds.  When things out of your control are, interupted, you might as well be gambling.

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Ok everything you said is completely wrong.

You can get well over 90% advertised speed. I get over 100% of my advertised speed on my 6 Mbps connection at home. I have a 30 Mbps connection at my office, and we get 32 Mbps, the server I own has a 1 Gbps and can push data out to the internet to another server at 998.4 Mbps,  IDK maybe i'm a little F#@&ed up or something but I think that over 90% . Some one correct me if im wrong. lol

You go into a ton of bull S#!t there which is actually funny, I don't see how you could have wrote this when you were sober.

PC's have been capable of handling data over 20 or 30 Mbps for many years. Do you have any idea how fast a modern 7200 RPM hard drive is? Here is a hint, its faster then 20 or 30Mbps.