[ale] transfer speed

[brandon at brandonchecketts.com (Brandon Checketts)]

Most ISPs will limit your upload bandwidth to under 512 kbps.  I think
the basic Charter package has 5 Mbps download, but is limited to 384
kbps upload.

Is your 40 kbps actually kilo-*bits* per second, or could it be
kilo*bytes* per second?   40 KB/s is equivalent to 320 kbps, and about
what I would expect to get uploading on cable.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts

Preston Boyington wrote:
> I'm on Charter cable at my apartment in AL and a server I setup in Texas
> is on Charter cable.  I'm backing up several Gigs of data (drive image
> snapshots and some ISO's mainly) and am noticing that the speed seems
> very slow.  Currently I'm averaging about 40kbs, but the speed is pretty
> intermittent (down as low as 1.4kbs occasionally).  I was thinking that
> I should be cooking since both machines are on cable.
> 
> At this rate the 20+ GB I'm moving will take weeks.
> 
> How can I find where the bottleneck is?
> 
> I'm using Unison for the transfer, but am not opposed to using something
> else.
> 
> Thoughts?
>