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Technically you are correct. The average speed downloaded via nntp with shaping on is 4.71Mbps. With shaping off completely it spiked to 7-8Mbps but has been only averaging near 5 of 12Mbps which is my cap. I have ack on high priority 0-80. Late at night it will be 2.5x faster than it is now. Thanks for the suggest. So you just recommend I keep it at 12Mbps for the maximum inbound pipe? -----Original Message----- From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:26 PM Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Cable modem incoming pipe bandwidth On 1/30/07, Michael <zlinda1002 at cox dot net> wrote: > How do I go about setting a maximum bandwidth pipe for incoming (downloads) > for a cable connection? > The connection varies from 4Mbps to 11Mbps depending on the network traffic? > Cable modems have a fixed speed cap. Whether or not you can actually utilize that to its full capacity depends mainly upon congestion in any portion of your ISP's network and the speed of the remote server (or the connection between the remote server and your ISP). It's unlikely, unless your ISP's network is severely mismanaged, that your actual connection is varying from 4-11 Mb. The reality is likely that whatever you're connecting to can only reach that speed at that given time. Another possibility is traffic shaping of some sort on your ISP's network. You should be able to set that to the actual cap and be fine. If your ISP's network routinely gets bogged down and you can't actually reach your cap, there isn't anything you can do about it. It would be theoretically possible, though difficult, to write something to detect changes in your actual maximum achievable throughput in near real time and change pipes accordingly, but I don't know of anything that permits something of that nature. -Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 9:31 AM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 9:31 AM |