Edmund Cramp wrote: > I have the high speed AT&T DSL service (6Mbs down - .5Mbs up) at home and > while I've been quite happy with it for web and browsing, I've run into an > interesting problem. > > Running the standard speedtest reports shows that I have the claimed data > rates, however if I start an outbound FTP transfer then the FTP rate never > goes higher than 50kbs AND my incomming rate FTP rate will not go higher than > 18kbs. Web perfomance is also very slow while the FTP transfer is running. > > Does anyone know if ATT are rate capping? Is anyone seeing this type of > problem with COX? > > Regards > Edmund Cramp > 50 kilobytes per second translates to 400 kilobits per second, which is 78% of the advertised upload cap. Downstream transfers require associated upload capacity as well. If you are maxed out on your upload capacity, any downloads will be affected.
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