ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

[Amitabh Kant]

On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <b.movaqar at adempiere.org> wrote:
> I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used
> 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him).  As I'd
> already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected
> bandwidth.  I performed the test with some other files and there was no
> difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bahman

The bandwidth being advertised by your ISP would be the maximum
thoughput allowed on your DSL lines with multiple DSL users sharing
the same bandwidth, something that is generally known as contention
ratio.

See this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention_ratio

Amitabh