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Subject: Re: is there a utillity...?
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On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote:
> 	The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M.  Up is 864Kbps.  I spent hours
> 	googling around and trying things.  So far, not much.   ---It
> 	occured that I _might_ be geting the full thru-put; that it is
> 	data that is flowing in  via the background that stalls things.
> 	(I have just shut off the automated flow.)

You can run "systat -if" to see how much bandwidth is being used by the 
computer.  At 1M you should see around 120KB/s downlink.

-- 
Bruce Cran