10/05/2021, 05:13 PM
You'll probably not notice the 10Mbps with streaming. For example, Netflix HD requires 5Mbps for HD and YouTube uses around 4-5Mbps at 1080p, so these should work fine. On YouTube, you can check the network speed to the YouTube server by right-clicking a playing video and click Stats for Nerds in the pop-up.
General downloading will likely be affected, i.e. 10Mbps = 1.2MB/s. You can do a test download of the 100MB file from the following page (or somewhere else such as a Linux ISO file):
https://kb.leaseweb.com/network/link-speeds
To see if it's per download, you can try downloading several files simultaneously and see what the Windows task manger reports for the overall network speed (Press Shift+Ctrl+ESC, go into Performance tab -> Ethernet or Wi-Fi). E.g. if downloading 4 files simultaneously gives around 40Mbps, then it's per TCP connection. If the speed still averages around 10Mbps, then it's possible the whole connection apart from port 8080 being throttled to 10Mbps.
If it's a throttle per TCP connection, then it's possible they are doing this to prevent video streaming in 4K resolution.
General downloading will likely be affected, i.e. 10Mbps = 1.2MB/s. You can do a test download of the 100MB file from the following page (or somewhere else such as a Linux ISO file):
https://kb.leaseweb.com/network/link-speeds
To see if it's per download, you can try downloading several files simultaneously and see what the Windows task manger reports for the overall network speed (Press Shift+Ctrl+ESC, go into Performance tab -> Ethernet or Wi-Fi). E.g. if downloading 4 files simultaneously gives around 40Mbps, then it's per TCP connection. If the speed still averages around 10Mbps, then it's possible the whole connection apart from port 8080 being throttled to 10Mbps.
If it's a throttle per TCP connection, then it's possible they are doing this to prevent video streaming in 4K resolution.