Thread: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Old 27-04-2012, 06:04   #1748
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by GavChap View Post
Go read this: https://kb.doit.wisc.edu/wiscnet/page.php?id=11778

You'll see that you lose 5.2% of bandwidth due to headers. Your 100Mbit ethernet will only ever be able to transfer TCP/IP data at a maximum of 94.8Mbit no matter what you do.
And? Not everybody or everything uses TCP.

Industry standard defines the speed of a connection as the speed of the underlying transport medium, not that your TCP speedtest rate. Once again, I don't care what your silly web based flash app speedtest tells you, the connection transfers 100mbps of data and how much overhead or what protocol you want to push over it is entirely your own business.

P.S. You can easily change one setting and generate enough overheads to turn a 100mbps connection into only giving you 40mbps of layer-7 throughput, does that mean it is not a 100mbps connection?
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