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I only have a 1 gigabit connection and my router is 1 gigabit. How does this happen? (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have FiOS and mine reads faster than the speed I pay for by about 100mbps both ways. The tech said they deliberately over-provision so that you'll get at least the advertised speed on wireless. I'm not sure who your provider is so this may not apply to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

it's the fact that he has a 1 gig router. with overhead only like 940 Mbps is possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That can’t be right because I’ve seen higher speeds than that during downloads with a download manager on my 1GBs infrastructure https://imgur.com/a/aIaVpi8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

9k. somehow you have less overhead. or that counts the overhead into the total transfer speed. you still have less then 1 gbps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That’s windows task manager measuring the bandwidth at the network card. Not sure how or why it would incorporate switching overhead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His router is rated for 1 gig, meaning it'll do minimum that amount.

It's not like they're going to set a software rate limit to make sure he doesn't go over that amount in ideal circumstances.

Unless he owns a Cisco router and hasn't purchased a performance license.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

“His router is rated for 1gig, meaning it’ll do minimum that amount”

Uh, No? What are you on about lol.