Questions tagged [bandwidth]
Bandwidth tag should be used when asking questions about data transfer rates over various data buses or network protocols.
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In Windows networking and networking in general, is 1 Megabit/s = 1000 or 1024 Kilobits/s?
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I was recently experimenting with using throttling inside some applications to prevent them from using the full bandwidth of my Internet connection, and I whilst testing the current ...
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Get router or computer to share bandwidth equally amongst applications
16Mbps is available via my cable-based ISP. When FileZilla is used to download a movie or television show via FTP, all 16Mbps of bandwidth are used. This is the expected and desired behavior.
The ...
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Bandwidth in communication and in physics... Faster WIFI speed?
While trying to increase the speed of my internet, I just realized how Bandwidth is understood differently in the networking world. That makes me kind of confused with why increasing a Wifi Bandwidth ...
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Youtube not buffering videos and not using any bandwidth in Chrome
Youtube for some reason seems to be completely unwilling to load a handful of videos. It's not buffering at all, and it seems to not even be using any bandwidth (i'm monitoring it).
The issue seems ...
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Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?
John Carmack tweeted,
I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?
And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being ...
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How does my ISP know my used bandwidth/quota?
I've always asked this question in my mind but couldn't answer it. I searched about it and found only one search result ( https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/338720-how-do-isp-s-monitor-your-data-...
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Throttle round trip time on Windows
I test performance of a web application under different circumstances. I've learned how to throttle the bandwidth on Windows.
But i've got nowhere a possibility to setup the round trip time ...
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How to limit bandwidth after a threshold is reached [Mikrotik]?
My router is Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD and I would like it to limit the connection speed to a particular website once some amount of traffic between the user and the website has passed. The website ip ...
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How can I monitor bandwidth use between my PC and my phone?
I've connected a smartphone to my PC using a USB cable, and set my phone to "MTP mode" for file transfer. My PC runs Windows 10 (alas...) and my phone runs MIUI based on Android 6.0.1.
So now, I'm ...
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Computers have drastically different download speeds on the same network
I have four devices, Windows 8.1 laptop (mine), Windows 10 laptop, iPhone SE, Android phone, connected to the same network and the Windows 8.1. laptop has a significantly slower download speed (~15 ...
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Can I use a switch to send high-bandwidth signals from multiple 100Mbps nodes to one central 1000Mbps node?
I want to stream video (compressed, ~20Mbps) from at least six raspberry pi zeros, each of which has a 10/100 USB ethernet adaptor, to a central PC with a 10/100/1000 port. All of the nodes will be ...
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How does an application in linux knows the available bandwidth for data transfer(any daemon helps it?)
I am trying to understanding a backup application working and during the staging of the data and uploading to cloud, it sends data as per the available bandwidth. How does it know the available ...
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Do cabled connections and Wi-Fi "use" the same bandwidth?
My brother likes to play games online on his Xbox. However, because he is far away from the router, he uses our Wi-Fi instead of an Ethernet cable. I, being closer to the router, use an Ethernet cable ...
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Childrens' apps hog the bandwidth on home LAN; how to add limits for kids
At home, we have a small network. We connect laptops using WiFi, provided by a TP-Link router (Model No. TL-WR1043ND). We run Windows and Linux operating systems on those laptops. The problem is our ...
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Broadcom WLAN NIC Extremely Slow
I'm trying to diagnose whether my laptops wireless NIC is dying or I have some adverse setting on my router or computer
When I'm connected to my router, my download is extremely slow. For awhile, I ...
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How does the "Gigabit" bandwidth limit apply in an ethernet network?
Edit: it seems I either misunderstood or was misled by this article, which seems to imply that a 10 Gbps switch is required to make good use of a dozen nodes with gigabit ports. With the clarification ...
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Is it possible to saturate the memory bus using high frequency DDR4 memory, even if a motherboard claims support for it?
So a friend of mine asked for some DDR4 memory recommendations since he was still using DDR3 and wanted to buy a new motherboard, preferably B450 chipset so he could buy a Ryzen. I told him to buy a ...
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How to optimally utilise 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands?
I have a dual band router which transmits two WiFi signals: one at frequency 2.4GHz and the other at frequency 5GHz.
I’ve read that, in general, the 5GHz band is quicker when at close range to the ...
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Unmetered VS Metered Bandwidth
What is the difference between unmetered and metered bandwidth? There are some web hosting companies that offer unmetered bandwidth. Does that mean it's unlimited bandwidth?
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Why do I have higher upload bandwidth on WiFi?
I live in a pretty crowded building, so the "airspace" is pretty crowded as well.
I get internet from FTTP through a 1Gbps link, which can be considered as stable and reliable for my question. Please ...
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Combining ADSL's valid IP and LTE's high upload bandwidth
I have an ADSL connection with 10/1 Mbps download/upload speed and a valid IPv4 address (i.e., addressable from the internet). Also, there is a Debian server on my network that is running a GitLab CE ...
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Quickest way to upload 500 GB to Google Drive
I have about 500GB to upload to to Google Drive. Two questions.
What would be the quickest way to do this? The drive app seems slow. Other people have said use CyberDuck but they seem to have ...
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How do I split an internet connection into 4 equal connections?
My 4 roomates and I have a problem:
One of my roomies is downloading torrents all the time. When somebody need make a call or doing something like you tube or a quiz using the internet conection. The ...
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How can I tell if my wifi router is max out?
I have a netgear r6300 wifi router for our office, and we have 43 devices connected to it. We're experiencing some problems with the router kicking people off. I suspect we may have too many devices ...
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Restrict bandwidth for a MAC ID for certain domains
I need to restrict bandwidth (make the site really slow) for 2-3 HTTPS domains (instagram.com and facebook.com) for a relative of mine. So need to target domain and MAC ID of the device.
We have a ...
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What is the main bottleneck for a personal offsite backup server
I want to host a personal cloud server on my network and am currently at a crossroads with hardware requirements for the server. My first thought was spend big bucks on a high performance machine with ...
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Determining contributors to elapsed time during a network request
The situation:
There is a remote server.
I am running a client program that makes calls to the server and requests data.
These requests perform very slowly.
The server limits the number of results to ...
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Maximum Bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 x8 6Gbps RAID Card
I have a quick question regarding what I'm seeing as an obstacle in getting the proper performance out of a RAID card...
I'm interested in setting up two RAID arrays (a RAID0 of 2 disks, and a RAID1 ...
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Broadband file transfer bottleneck
I am transferring a video (about 500 MB) created for a school project to my classmate's NAS box over our broadband connections.
She has a 15 Mbps down and I have 15 Mbps up, according to multiple ...
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Improved bandwidth throughout home network
I appear to be encountering bandwidth limitations on my home network.
In this specific instance, I am streaming videos from an external hard drive connected to a PC (USB), on a laptop wirelessly ...
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Android LG K-210 bandwith info for Taiwan [closed]
I have a Canadian LG K210 (LG Power) phone that was unlocked by the carrier Telus which I was able to use in Malaysia (for data and calling) and Thailand (calls only). Here in Taiwan, neither seems ...
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Measure server bandwidth
I want to measure a bandwidth of my implemented in Python remailer server, which means I want to measure how many bytes my server is processing per second. So how I was planing to do that is: for a ...
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Will two access points (on one network) speed up Wi-Fi access for multiple clients?
If I set two (or more) wireless access points with the same network name and credentials, connected to the same LAN, will they speed up access or slow it down? (The LAN is 1 GB, so it is faster than ...
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How to get network bandwidth consumption of each process on Mac
How can I know each process cost my bandwidth in kb/s?
Activity Monitor of Mac OSX only shows received bytes and send bytes of each process.
Command "nettop" and "nethogs" in Terminal can only show ...
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uplink bandwidth requirements to stream HD down?
I have a TV service that uses ADSL technology. It means that my TV is basically streaming everything over the internet.
I was told today that this would require at least 1MB/s uplink to be able to ...
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How do I calculate the runtime bandwidth of the PCIe socket using Process Control Monitor?
I'm working in deep learning and I'm trying to identify a bottleneck in our GPU pipeline.
We're running Ubuntu on an Intel Xeon motherboard with 4 NVIDIA Titan RTXs. GPU utilization as measured by ...
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Where does internet latency comes from?
Sorry if this was asked before. Couldn't find anything about it on SE.
So the distance from San Francisco to Australia is about 8,000 km.
This source indicates that the latency among the two ...
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How can I monitor internet usage in my network? [closed]
I need to know which computer is consuming my bandwidth. Is there a tool to do this?
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Windows update - network speed throttle
What 'speed percentage' is referred in Windows update delivery optimization, 'interface' speed or broadband connection speed?
I ask this because I'm on a good LAN, but network connection is slow ~...
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Does increasing upload or download speed reduce ping?
I have a 5 MB/s connection, but I always notice high ping when playing online games. When the network is stable (i.e. when pingtest.com reports the connection as 5 MB/s), the ping stays at 50 ms, but ...
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YouTube is consuming much bandwidth than other operations on my home network
I've a problem that when I'm surfing Facebook, Twitter, stackOverflow or any other site than YouTube, Pages usually takes lot of time to download. While, YouTube don't have any problems. I've a 2 Mbps ...
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Does giving two bands in a simultaneous dual band wireless router the same SSID double the bandwidth for a wireless connection?
I am sharing my wifi with a Linksys E2500 router, which allows you to name each frequency (2.4 GHz, 5.0 GHz) of wireless network a different name. A user told me that if each band has a different name,...
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Are the rating of switches the total bandwidth for all communication or between any two ports
Let's say I have 4 computers on a gigabit switch. Is the switch's gigabit rating the speed for all connections added up or the speed between any two computers? For example if computer 1 was ...
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Is there a way to tell which computer is hogging up the wireless bandwith?
I have a wireless router in my house and it's shared by five different computers and 2 iPhones. Lately I've noticed the speed drastically shoot down. Naturally, I though someone else was in the ...
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Sharing internet access - solid way to guarantee good bandwidth for VoIP and gaming?
we have a linksys E2500 here
The internet connection is a low 2 mbit with 1 mbit upload. The connection is shared by around 16 people (yayyy).
I want teamviewer, skype, VoIP work well, as well as a ...
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Bandwidth Monitoring for Linksys E4200
I have a Linksys E4200 router with about 10 computers connecting to it. I'm looking for a way to monitor bandwidth usage in real time. I am willing to install custom firmware if it can get the job ...
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will the hdd be the bottleneck for a 10gbps server?
I have a server with 1 gbps connection (which is ~125 MB/s).
The server has normal mechanical Hard disk drives. Afaik their speed limit is also around 120 MB/s.
For instance, if I download a file from ...
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Is it possible to rate-limit an scp/sftp/rsync/etc transfer from the command-line? ie, manual QoS on a single command?
Specifically, I am looking to rate-limit an scp or sftp session (or other arbitrary network call) in the call itself.
For example, let's say I want to copy 100MB to one server, and 1GB to another. I'...
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Viewing the bandwidth usage of a wireless device connected to my router
I just want to figure out which wireless client is sucking my bandwidth (it's slowing down my Starcraft games :-/).
I have a Linksys WRT54G router (Linux version). For firmware, I'm currently using ...
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Effective bandwidth of mismatched PCIe card and slot
What happened if :
x16 PCIe 2.0 card into x16 PCIe 3.0 slot (but electrically x8 link due to sharing)
x16 PCIe 3.0 card into x16 PCIe 2.0 slot (but electrically x8 link due to sharing)
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