question about burstable bandwidth and capped lines
 

Hi,

maybe someone can help me please:

I'm not sure whether my lines are capped at 3 Mbps or not. So if my MRTG graph shows me that I have an average out of 2.2 Mbps and an Out-max of 4.5 Mbps does this tell me by 100% that my lines are not capped? Anybody knows this please?


Many Thanks.

it tells you 100% that you're not capped at 3Mbps.
(you could be at 5 tho)

no, max out is just the highest outgoing in 5minutes.

login to the shell and do a wget on a big file like a linux cd iso file or something

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/...6-binary-1.iso

should help you to see if you're capped to XX Mbit.

If you were capped at X megabits there would be no way for you to push more than that amount, even at a peak, even for a second. However, downloading files to the server, and pushing them to the users is different and depending on how the cap may be setup, it may add both together towards the cap, or only cap your outbound traffic, which means you can still upload quickly to the server, or wget files quickly, but pushing them out to users is capped.

Ok, thanks anybody, You helped me a lot!