XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   (Posted to both Win-11 and Linux groups)   
      
   Some years ago, The Australian Government set up a "company" to connect   
   everyone up to the Internet. Commercial Buildings would get   
   Fibre-to-the-Building whilst Homes would get Fibre-to-the-Node then   
   twisted pair to the Home .... unless the Home-owner paid the extra bucks   
   to get Fibre-to-the-Home.   
      
   Now, various Domestic-type ISP's are offering to upgrade anybody to   
   Fibre-to-the-Home for not much cost. My sister is undergoing this   
   upgrade at the moment, so this has prompted my question.   
      
   Which got me thinking ..... How do "they" Speed-test Internet Links?? ..   
   particularly How do 'they' distinguish the Up-link TIME from the   
   Down-link TIME?? e.g. my current speeds, using Speedtest, are ....   
      
   https://www.bing.com/search?q=Internet%20speed%20test&form=B0003   
   &ocid=SettingsHAQ-BingIA&pageId=SettingsPageNetworkManageAdapter   
   ptions&mkt=en-US   
      
   Ping		23ms   
   Download	12.66 Mb/s   
   Upload		0.93 Mb/s   
      
   O.K., so these speeds, now-a-days, might not be anything to Write home   
   about but they are what they are .... but how do 'they' seperate how   
   much time is spent Downloading from my Computer and how much time is   
   spent Uploading to my Computer.   
      
   I mean .... My Computer starts a check, the signal goes somewhere,   
   starts a clock and a signal comes back to my Computer and, maybe, my   
   computer sends another signal to stop the Clock .... so the signal does   
   at least one full circuit .... but how do "they" seperate the two halves   
   times and, therefore, the speeds each way??   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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