DSL Bandwidth Please Explain How & When It Can Affect Your Speed

[Peachesbackwards]

I have ATT UVerse 24mbs Turbo Speed DSL Service connected to ATT Supplied Modem/Route & Connected to my computer by Ethernet Cable.

Can someone please tell me how you can find out what your bandwidth is, if the amount has to do with what internet speed you want and how you can tell if the bandwidth is affecting your internet speed downloading time. More specifically, lets say I'm downloading files from the internet while I'm also surfing the web. Will that make my downloading and surfing time slower? How exactly does Bandwidth Work? Lets say Hypothetically my bandwidth is 1000 (random number). Once I close the browser I'm using and reopen it again does it automatically revert to 1000 or does it go down from the previous usage? Say I download and it goes down to 600. When I stop downloading will it revert back to 1000 again? Thanks for any info

 

[beers]

Restarting the browser has nothing to do with it

Just think of it as you have a maximum amount of data that you can pull for all of your home devices from the Internet at 24 mbps (3 MB/sec). If you're downloading a file at 2 MB/sec, all other data activities to your house have 1 MB/sec left (8 mbit) to work with. This may or may not affect your browsing experience depending on the data size of the websites you're visiting. When the download is finished, you are no longer using that 2 MB/sec chunk of bandwidth and you can use that capacity for something else then.

Can someone please tell me how you can find out what your bandwidth is

ATT UVerse 24mbs

I found it!

 

[Geoff]

If you have the Uverse 24Mbps plan, that means you have 24Mbps of bandwidth that you can utilize from that modem. Generally, that means you can utilize up to 24Mbps at any given time, it doesn't go down if you use the internet and then stop for a while. Also, even if you aren't browsing the web your devices are still using the internet, as many applications and even the operating system itself ping servers to check for and download updates, as well as to phone in to activation servers for some software applications. Even if your devices are off, there is still a trickle of data going in and out of your modem.

 

[Peachesbackwards]

If you have the Uverse 24Mbps plan, that means you have 24Mbps of bandwidth that you can utilize from that modem. Generally, that means you can utilize up to 24Mbps at any given time, it doesn't go down if you use the internet and then stop for a while. Also, even if you aren't browsing the web your devices are still using the internet, as many applications and even the operating system itself ping servers to check for and download updates, as well as to phone in to activation servers for some software applications. Even if your devices are off, there is still a trickle of data going in and out of your modem.

Restarting the browser has nothing to do with it

Just think of it as you have a maximum amount of data that you can pull for all of your home devices from the Internet at 24 mbps (3 MB/sec). If you're downloading a file at 2 MB/sec, all other data activities to your house have 1 MB/sec left (8 mbit) to work with. This may or may not affect your browsing experience depending on the data size of the websites you're visiting. When the download is finished, you are no longer using that 2 MB/sec chunk of bandwidth and you can use that capacity for something else then.




I found it!

Thank you very much Very clear explanation Appreciate it

 

[Peachesbackwards]

If you have the Uverse 24Mbps plan, that means you have 24Mbps of bandwidth that you can utilize from that modem. Generally, that means you can utilize up to 24Mbps at any given time, it doesn't go down if you use the internet and then stop for a while. Also, even if you aren't browsing the web your devices are still using the internet, as many applications and even the operating system itself ping servers to check for and download updates, as well as to phone in to activation servers for some software applications. Even if your devices are off, there is still a trickle of data going in and out of your modem.

Thanks. One thing I'm not clear is for say as 24 mbps plan, that means that you have 24mbps of bandwidth but not that your initial internet speed is 24mbps correct? IE You just click on internet browser and your first web click is Si.com. Does that mean the initial speed to SI is 24 MBPS?

 

[voyagerfan99]

It means that you will download pages and files around 24Mbps, but actual speed will vary.