Ubernets on the Intertube
I was able to get 7.5 megabytes per second of uploading going on a few days ago. That may not seem like much, but with a speed like that, it's as likely that I'm hitting the limits for how fast the Ethernet cable connecting my computer to the router, and even the router's ability to process packets, as I am to be hitting the connection cap applied by the ISP.
7.5MB/s is very fast. Our connection back in the States in Ellensburg is a 10Mb (megabit) per second connection, and usually runs at about 8 Mbits/s, while my connection here passed 50Mbits/s.
Our connection in the States: 10Mbits/s, $80/month
My connection here in Japan: 100Mbits/s, $50/month
But, and this is kind of a pain, for about a quarter of the day, from about 6PM until midnight, the ISP blocks peer to peer software as best they can, and you generally get very poor bandwidth and generally a poor connection during this time. What this says to me is they've oversold their infrastructure by quite a lot.
The rest of the time, though, it's a nice, fairly stable connection that is blindingly fast.
7.5MB/s is very fast. Our connection back in the States in Ellensburg is a 10Mb (megabit) per second connection, and usually runs at about 8 Mbits/s, while my connection here passed 50Mbits/s.
Our connection in the States: 10Mbits/s, $80/month
My connection here in Japan: 100Mbits/s, $50/month
But, and this is kind of a pain, for about a quarter of the day, from about 6PM until midnight, the ISP blocks peer to peer software as best they can, and you generally get very poor bandwidth and generally a poor connection during this time. What this says to me is they've oversold their infrastructure by quite a lot.
The rest of the time, though, it's a nice, fairly stable connection that is blindingly fast.
Labels: Internet
posted by William at
9/14/2008 08:05:00 PM
3 Comments:
By the way, it is less than $50 for the 10 megabit in E'burg now. This is a good thing, but it is nothing like the speeds you are talking about getting with your happy connection presently.
I can't wait to see somewhat mediocre Gigabit routers, since 100Mb/s is still ~12MB/s.
That's at most, though. Doing quick data transfer over Ethernet from one computer to another on the same LAN, I don't expect to see anything better than 8MB/s or so. Even with a short crossover, you're not going to get much better than that.
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