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. -- E-mail: james@ | "I don't think so," said René Descartes. Just then, he aprilcottage.co.uk | vanished.
