Thread: 20Mb service, what speed should I expect?
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Old 28-07-2010, 08:05   #16
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Re: 20Mb service, what speed should I expect?
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Originally Posted by Boris1977 View Post
If the upstream is where the issue is in the report generated why is it only my download speed thats affected?
Every downstream packet you receive has to be acknowledged. If the upstream is having problems some of those ACKs will be lost and the server will assume it has to resend the packet. Those duplicated packets are just wasting your downstream and show up as a fall in throughput.
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