Greetings --
Most likely you "LAN Speed" would be the connectaion max for your enternet
card. Which is most likely 10 or 100Mbs. Your ISP doesnt provide you with
that much bandwidth. Your connection speed will always vary from the speed
the network card can handle.
The bandwidth difference is one possibility. Another is the
measurement. Your LAN / WAN speed is given in bits / second - 3M
(egabits/second) fast cable broadband (lucky people), 10M LAN, 100M
LAN, or 1G LAN (if you're really lucky). Your connection speed, in
some browsers or download monitors, is shown in Bytes / second.
There are 8 bits in a byte. With network overhead, and for
convenience, most network analysts use a 10 to 1 conversion factor.
So, my file downloads (from fast servers) run around 20KBytes/ second,
which is about all my crappy DSL (200Kbits / second) will give me.
Chuck
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