Server speed as reported by UE

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Mierzoet
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Server speed as reported by UE

Post by Mierzoet »

Hi.

I've got a small question.

When looking at the Servers Workspace page, it reports a current download speed. This is in KB/s.

Is this KiloByte per second?

So 1200 KB/s would translate to = 9.60 Mb/s (Mega bit per second).

My question is this, because I can not figure out what speed my dsl provider is providing to me.

I have a 20Mbps contract, and the provider tells me they can deliver up to 8Mbps to my address.
When checking up and download speeds on various internet site, I never ever get any higher then 3 Mbps.

But when recalculating the speed UE gets I get much higher figures.

So I just wanted to check if my calculations are correct.

grtz,
Twan
alex
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Post by alex »

yes it is correct, you get something like 9.6mbps (megabit per second) then.

if you download headers and provider supports header compression UE may show two bandwidths like:

Bandwidth 21.5 KB/s (131 KB/s)

you should look at the left (smaller) value since the bandwidth in the parentheses is of inflated data after decompression.
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