The magic hands of the Phone Guy debunked



I was promised (and am paying for) a certain bandwidth XX. But sites like http://www.speedtest.net/ indicated a bandwidth YY (much smaller than XX). To gather more empirical data over time and to make sure, that I am not hallucinating, I installed a Zabbix server on a Raspberry Pi ((https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Zabbix_on_the_Raspberry_Pi_%28OS_Raspbian%29)) and set up a monitoring for my Fritz!Box ((http://znil.net/index.php?title=FritzBox_mit_Zabbix_%C3%BCberwachen_HowTo_mit_Template)).

The data for the item "Fritz!Box DSL-Downstream" clearly indicated that YY was around 6 Mbps. So I called my ISP and they ultimately sent the tech-guy to the rescue: He was at my home around 8:30 in the morning and measured the bandwidth with a small magical device. First at the basement where the cable enters the house and then at my office on the first floor. To my surprise, both measurements indicated a much bigger number YY' (which was bigger than YY and looks much more like XX). He also left me under the impression, that everything was fine with my internet connection the whole time, which I might have believed. But:

netcologne-zabbix-bandwidthhttps://blag.nullteilerfrei.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/netcologne-zabbix-bandwidth-1024x210.jpg 1024w, https://blag.nullteilerfrei.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/netcologne-zabbix-bandwidth-300x61.jpg 300w, https://blag.nullteilerfrei.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/netcologne-zabbix-bandwidth.jpg 1520w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"> Note the time, when something changed! I rest my case. He doesn't have magic hands. He cheated!

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