Hello people of TS, I have a pretty straightforward question:
What counts against the bandwidth you have from your provider (say for example 20Mbit/s)? Is it the 1500~ bytes of the ethernet packet? Is it the size of the enclosed IP packet? Or is it the size of the packet that is in the IP packet? (I hope I got the terminology right, please correct me if I am wrong, I want to learn it.)
Thank you for any responses, I will be back in a few hours and I will look if someone has responded and maybe start a conversation.
Moss
In general every bit you send counts against you maximum upload, every bit you rescive counts against your max download.
20 megabits (20Mbit/s) equals to:
20971520 bits (bit/s)
2621440 bytes (byte/s)
2.5 megabytes (mbyte/s)
To your ISP it does not mater if its IP packets inside IP packets, IP packets inside UDP.. or what ever..
Unless your on comcast using their streaming service. Sarcasm
I still don't understand how the hell that works.
but as th3z0ne said every bit/byte received counts
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I thought the "IPTV" that is not using the "internet" is not counted against the volume cap.
But if your connection has a "with" of 20mbit/s and the Streaming uses 10mbit/s there only will be 10mbit/s left for other traffic.
I always explain 20 mbit/s as a highway with 20 lanes coming from ISPcity. ^^ and the cap is that only 1000000 cars are allowed on it a month ;)
Alright, that makes sense I suppose. I was just wondering because when I was downloading files and it went up to the cap of 2.0 MBytes/s and actually seemed to get 2.0 MBytes/s worth of data I was wondering if it maybe only was the payload and not all the packets and headers around. That's cleared up now. Thank you :)
This is an infrastructure thing. So with cable, you have the abillity to get UP TO 20 mbps, however you are likely to not get that. It is because the "wire" is shared by everyone else in your area, and so the less other people use, the higher your speeds will be. Cable one is especially guilt of this. You are almost guaranteed to be sharing, unless you have DSL or a dedicated like, which I doubt you have
I actually have DSL. Cable's not available in this building. Guess that's pretty neat. :)