Troubleshooting the network connection speed

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:00:59 -0500
> Dale Dellutri <daledellutri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Before I go complain to my ISP, I'd like to hear if anyone can give
> > > me an idea what is going on with my networks... :-)
> > >
> > > I have two machines, with following link properties:
> > >
> > >  local --- 20Mbps/2Mbps (GSM wireless)
> > >  remote --- 100Mbps/100Mbps (100Mbit LAN connected to optical
> > > uplink)
> > >
> > 
> > I assume that the local is connected to a cable service ISP.
> > Cable service dpeeds are generally not guaranteed, and depend on other
> > users on the same cable segment, whom you know nothing about.
> 
<snippage>
> If all else fails, I'll contact my ISP (and work my way through their
> seven-gates-of-hell "customer support" thing...), and hope they can do
> something about it.

And they'll give you Windoze-specific directions on how to troubleshoot it! :(

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