Bandwidth

Speeds

Bandwith Overview

Typical speeds based on connection type ...

• USB 1.0 = 1.5Mbps
• USB 1.1 = 12Mbps
• DSL (telephone line) = 1 to 35Mbps
• Cable (Coax) = 10 to 50Mbps
• Wi-Fi (2.4Gz) = 2Mbps to 150Mbps
• Wi-Fi (5Gz) = 3Mbps to 1Gbps
• Cat5e (Ethernet) = 1,000Mbps
• Cat7 (Ethernet) = 10Gbps
• Fiber-Optic = 50 to 1Gbps
• 4G LTE Wireless = 35Mbps
• 5G Wireless = 200Mbps
• USB 2.0 = 480Mbps
• USB 3.0 = 5Gbps
• USB 3.1 = 10Gbps
• USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 = 20Gbps
• USB 4 Gen 3x2 = 40Gbps

https://www.meridianoutpost.com/resources/etools/calculators/calculator-file-download-time.php

Testing Speed of Internal LAN

http://www.jamescoyle.net/tag/iperf

Testing Speed of External WAN

https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

http://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/1150-test-internet-speed-from-the-command-line

Limiting Bandwidth Usage of Applications (Linux)

Tickle