DSL DL/UL speed

[Jan Kokoska]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:12 -0400, Warren Walker wrote:
> I'm realitvely new to Linux, and so far Ubuntu has been great.
> 
> 1 question, when using my Windows machine I've noticed that my bandwith for
> my DSL goes from 8 - 48+ Kb/s, but on my Ubuntu machine it will only max out
> at 16.5 Kb/s.
> 
> Is Linux capped at running 16.5, because I've noticed the same speed on my
> Fedora Core machine as well.  If so, can this 'speed limit' be changed?

Install package "iptraf" (maybe from universe), this program gives you a
precise idea of what is going through your network interfaces at which
speed. Linux is not capped at all, no OS is... I suspect a random
concidence, your mates downloading at the same time or such.

If you had two computers one way to find out exactly would be to run
iptraf on one in the middle between testing machine (Linux/Windows) and
your DSL modem. But you still can't test both at the same time.

Jan