Bandwidth problem... upload at 1MB/s, server sees 10MB/s

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:42:41AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I've got a weird problem on my server... When I upload to it from my  
> workstation, I get about 1MB/s up. However, if I watch the server, it's  
> seeing 10MB/s... As soon as I stop my upload, the bandwidth on the  
> server drops to nearly nothing, so I know it's not being caused by other  
> traffic.
>
>   For example, from my laptop I see:
>
> digimer at lework:~/dvd_rip$ scp erin_vol1.avi ERIN_VOL1.iso  
> root-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org:/backups/iso/tjls/
> erin_vol1.avi                           67%  382MB   1.0MB/s   02:59 ETA

So 1.0MB/s (mega bytes per second).

>   And on the server I see:
>
> Interface    Received        Sent       Total
>                   Kbps        Kbps        Kbps

Does Kbps by any chance mean kilo bits per second?
>
>  eth0          9761.36      231.84     9993.12
>
>  lo             120.88      120.88      241.68
>
>  All           9882.24      352.72    10234.80
>
>  Press 'q' to quit...		Elapsed time: 0 hrs, 7 mins, 18 s
>
>   It's Debian 5 stable, and the links between are:
>
> Laptop -> wireless -> switch -> main switch -> server
>
>   This should support much higher speeds, and I've gotten a full 10MB/s  
> in the past.
>
>   Thanks for any help or clues!

Are you expecting 10 megabytes or megabits per second?

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