Do you sometimes think the good/high speeds are reserved for the CEO's and big bosses, e.g., 31.50 Mb/s (download speed)? These telecom companies can 'control' the flow to Joe and Jane Customer from a control center, am I right?
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Imagine the internet to be something like a pipeline, with all the pipes being different sizes. If you have a super fast download speed (large pipe), but the file or page you want is on a server (or goes through a server) that has a tiny pipe (low upload speed), it will appear on your end to be downloading slowly. But the issue isn't your download speed, it's the speed at which the file is being sent to you. It's only as fast as it's slowest connecting point.
You can also think about advertised max download speed a little like a speedometer on a car. Many cars can go 140 m.p.h...but few regularly do.
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Are you talking about an internet connection from your ISP as others assume you are? Or do you mean the internet at your job?
If you meant at your job, because honestly ISP don't deliver it via wireless outside of those that do cells, then yes. The connection can be locked down. If they have a proper linux (not off the shelf router) router it'll easily let you go in and set rules for who gets what speed, access to what, and through what ports. Further programs can be run to collect all data going across the network (anyone can do this, even at home).
Per ISP, you get the bandwidth you pay for, hopefully. They lock you down to that bandwidth and lock some ports. Many ISPs lock ports used for P2Ps - universities do this with their connections. They can also put traffic thats being run over other ports as having priority and will say, bump port 80 (port browsers typically use) down.
Some countries will actually block certain ports. Like Brazil locking down common P2P and bittorrent ports.
Luckily you can easily get around port scanning and locking.
If you meant at your job, because honestly ISP don't deliver it via wireless outside of those that do cells, then yes. The connection can be locked down. If they have a proper linux (not off the shelf router) router it'll easily let you go in and set rules for who gets what speed, access to what, and through what ports. Further programs can be run to collect all data going across the network (anyone can do this, even at home).
Per ISP, you get the bandwidth you pay for, hopefully. They lock you down to that bandwidth and lock some ports. Many ISPs lock ports used for P2Ps - universities do this with their connections. They can also put traffic thats being run over other ports as having priority and will say, bump port 80 (port browsers typically use) down.
Some countries will actually block certain ports. Like Brazil locking down common P2P and bittorrent ports.
Luckily you can easily get around port scanning and locking.
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Yes, one wireless exec told a CNBC reporter that they can slow customers down (Heard this week).
