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IBB Broadband and half duplex.

  • 05-01-2004 7:20pm
    #1
    Atreides
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭


    How exactly does this work in practic, is i if your downloading anything at all you can't upload an vice versa, or if your downloading at 40kb you can only upload at 10kb andvice versa or is it something else all together.


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  • #2
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    Basically half duplex means you can't upload at full speed and download at full speed at the same time. If you are downloading at 30kb/s, you can expect to upload at 20kb/s (if you have 512/512). If you download at 60kb/s you can expect to have about 2kb\s upload. And if you download at 10kb/s, you can probably upload at about 40kb's.

    These are just rough figures. One thing to note is that in order to download anything, some of your up speed is used to manage the download.


  • #3
    Atreides
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Atreides


    And is upload speed trottled back as well as download speed at peak times.


  • #4
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    Technically no. BUT (and its a big but) if they run low on bandwidth, (i.e. everyone starts downloading at once) their business customers will get priority over residential customers. Personally, i have no problem with that.

    But also, you wil probably see a slowdown during peak hours, as quite obviously, they are peak hours, so everyone is using it then.


  • #5
    Silent Assasin
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Silent Assasin


    I have been with IBB since June on the guinness mast and i have no probs with them.

    I dont upload much but occassionally i vpn into the network at work and never had any bother downloading or uploading... From what i can guess (im not a network guru) it uploads as fast as the destination will take it day or night

    hope this helps


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