[Tfug] Internet speed

[arizray at comcast.net]

I have done some small checking and cannot find anything that jumps out. I am using a router to access my cable modem as is my other box. As I said the other box seems to get better speeds so there could easily be a hardware issue. I need some help in eliminating some of those items. 

As I mentioned, while doing speed tests the the test seems to stop at about 4.5mb/s and stay there until the test is over. I tried several speed sites. I recently upgraded to 8mb from 6mb. I notice no change really. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jordan Aberle" <jordan.aberle at gmail.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 6:37:05 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Internet speed 

Have you done internal testing first to make sure it isn't a cable or nic issue? It could even be a hard drive issue. 


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM, < arizray at comcast.net > wrote: 




~$ tcptraceroute yahoo.com 
Selected device eth0, address 192.168.0.2, port 44019 for outgoing packets 
Tracing the path to yahoo.com (68.180.206.184) on TCP port 80 (www), 30 hops max 
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11 w2.rc.vip.sp1.yahoo.com (68.180.206.184) [open] 31.998 ms 32.247 ms 35.803 ms 






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Claude Rubinson" < rubinson at u.arizona.edu > 
To: tfug at tfug.org 
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 8:19:22 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Internet speed 

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:54:26PM +0000, arizray at comcast.net wrote: 
> I realize that download performance is subject to the conditions at 
> the server one is downloading from and other factors but I sense 
> that there might be a setting or something that is in need of 
> checking/changing. 

Others will be able to discuss the vagaries of Comcast; I just want to 
point out that until you have some solid stats as to your throughput, 
you can't make any claims one way or the other. 

Over at one of my old LUGs, there was recently a very detailed post on 
how to measure your throughput: 
http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2009-March/003308.html 

Claude 

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