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

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?

That's a darn fine, and obvious, question that I did not think to ask 
myself. I can't check just now, but I will in a few minutes.

Madi
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