Questions tagged [bandwidth]
Bandwidth tag should be used when asking questions about data transfer rates over various data buses or network protocols.
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Tool to monitor wifi stability?
I'm having wireless problems both at home and at work.
I'm looking for a tool that tests
TCP/IP reliability: wireless network is always here
bandwidth: does the bandwidth drop at some point?
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What is eating up all my bandwidth?
After upgrading my internet connection from 512kb/s to 1.5Mb/s (and 14GB on-peek/month to 20GB on-peek/month), our download usage has gone through the roof. I have made special effort to be careful ...
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How to view only text from a website [closed]
Is it possible that when a website is opened only text data is displayed, i.e. no images, advertisements etc. so that it takes less time to load the website? Is there a browser that supports this?
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Which one VoIP SIP audio codec should I choose to high quality calls?
The quality of VoIP calls depends on the codec used for the transmission and on the bandwidth of Internet connection.
I want to use best optimized codec for my Internet connection.
I have to select ...
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Application bandwidth monitor
Which is the best application bandwidth monitor for my windows machine?
Some programs lurking in the background seems to pull up all the bandwidth and constraints my browsing experience. Are there ...
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Are there any wireless routers that allow bandwidth monitoring and throttling?
Are there any wireless routers that would allow me to see what clients are hogging up bandwidth and that would let me limit them so that they can't grab it all? Both wifi-wise and internet-wise.
I ...
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Skype Bandwidth Usage
I am wondering if anyone can tell me the average bandwidth usage for a Skype to Skype call (PC to PC) per hour (voice only), as well as calls that would include screen sharing. I have tried searching ...
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Increasing network speed on low bandwidth
I'm struggling with the following issue:
Given a computer with low-medium CPU/RAM capabilities, and an extremely poor network connection. Poor means here 10-15 kb/s. I would like to do something to ...
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Is it possible to tell windows 10 to not take all the available bandwith when downloading updates?
Windows 10 updates itself pretty often, and usually it takes all of my bandwidth, I can hardly browse the internet or watch youtube.
Usually common programs are able to share bandwidth, but here ...
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Is there a way to find out what app is using most of my bandwidth in windows
I have found several that measures total bandwidth but none that tells me bandwidth per application. Preferably with some history or logging.
I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2
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Wifi is slower than Ethernet cable connection?
I configured my new router and noticed that WiFi connection is way slower than Ethernet connection.
Ethernet connection giving a download speed of ~60Mbps and upload speed of ~30Mbps while the Wifi ...
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Bandwidth in frequency to bits/sec
Sometimes I see bandwidth of e.g. ethernet cable mentioned in hertz instead of bits/sec. What does this tells about transmission rate? Can it be converted to bits/sec?
For example:
If bandwidth of ...
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How do I split an internet connection into 4 equal connections?
My 4 roomates and I have a problem:
One of my roomies is downloading torrents all the time. When somebody need make a call or doing something like you tube or a quiz using the internet conection. The ...
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Why does my internet get disabled during an upload to YouTube?
If I start a file download before starting the video upload then the download will continue at full speed while the video uploads, but if I try to navigate to any webpage on any device on my network ...
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Wireless router bandwidth with multiple clients
Suppose a wireless router has a bandwidth of 54 Mbps. Does this mean that 2 clients (PC's) that are connected to the router can both transfer data at 54 Mbps simultaneously, or will the bandwidth be ...