diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

[H. Kurth Bemis]

Seriously now.

Comcast provides nothing but stellar service.  Let's not be hard on them
or suspect them of incorrectly representing their service offerings.

Greg, it's obviously your Ethernet cables.  I bet they're no name.  I
suggest you give the Denon AK-DL1's
(http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp) a try.  Also, you'll
have to locate your computer no more then 59inches from your router
(shorter distance for the data to travel = faster speeds).

Finally, I've heard that waxing your modem will make it go faster.

Good Luck.
~k

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:25 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Sorry if I'm repeating others, I lost a couple messages to kernel
> message that made my mailscanner segfault..
> 
> > Speed tests like http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1 report my
> > performance as...
> > 4,909 Kb/s Download
> > 3,055 Kb/s Upload
> 
> so this rules out everything Comcast told you could be the problem
> 
> > But, in my experience downloading files, I rarely get anything like
> > that.   In fact, while the DSL Reports Speed Test is checking my
> > system, I'm watching the "Network History" graph on the "Resources"
> > tab of System Monitor (v2.26.0.1) aka gnome-system-monitor and it's
> > not breaking 800Kbps.  I then used wget to download MySQL Workbench
> > and it reports 33,373,104 downloaded in ~42 seconds at a rate of 783
> > KB/s
> 
> are you mixing b and B here?
> 
> Note that some ISP's are known to cheat on well-known speed tests.  If
> you have access to a fast offsite server, try your own network speed test:
> 
> 
> http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/06/09/your-network-speed-testing-made-easy
> 
> That should tease out whether you're being unfairly shaped or not.
> 
> -Bill
>