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I pay for a 10 mbps Managed Internet Connection. Does That mean my connection is allocated 10 mbps upload and 10 mbps download at any given time giving me a total of 20 mbps of throughput?

or does a 10 mbps managed circuit mean that i only have 10 mbps no matter if it is being used on the upload or download. For ex. using 5 mbps download will leave you with 5 mbps upload vis versa.

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The 10 mbps should be your download throughput. It may also be your upload throughput, or you may have less. It depends on whether you have a symmetrical or asymmetrical circuit. DSL and cable are almost always asymmetrical. Throughput in one direction does not count against the traffic in the other direction, so if you have a symmetrical connection you get 10 mbps in each direction.

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My connection is symmetrical. So does that mean I can download at 10 mbps and upload at 10 mbps at the exact same time. Equaling 20 mbps throughput at once?

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Yes.

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You will have 10m of bandwidth available for upload and 10m for download on a dedicated Ethernet circuit (minus some small overhead) . It’s not a total of 20m in either direction, still 10/10.

I think we are saying the same thing but the word “total” is throwing me off.

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Usually a managed connection refers to one of two types of connections.

  1. Enhanced IP = These are symmetrical. 10 up/10down

  2. MPLS- This is normally on a distributed model with shared bandwidth between up and down. 10 up or down.

Why is it different than a standard connection. You do not have a direct static IP. This means even if you are provided with a static it may not be the same as the IP your firewall gets. It differs greatly from a standard ISP connection. Generally the most you have in front of your connection Asx style reverse proxy or router. The managed connection has some type of telco firewall between the whole internet and the end client system. It does not negate a need for your own firewall as there can be holes in the CO/NOC unit from client to client. My provider in my area other than the issue below provides 1 to 1 IPs, but it still hits a firewall.

I ran into this when a client was being converted to Enhance IP from MPLS. I had two physical location with the same routable external IP. While the statics assigned to firewalls were different. Of course to my surprise every one could connect to the internet. Only problem was nothing could initiate incoming connections if one wasn’t all ready outgoing.

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10mbps is the same bandwidth used for both upload and download. If they specify that they are offering 10 Mbps then you won’t get the exact the same amount of speed. The speed may vary depending on the cable medium type distance etc factors.

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Typically, I’ve seen “managed Internet connection” referring to a Dedicated Internet connection with an ISP-managed router. Like the others have already said, however, the 10M/10M is just a total of 10M download & 10M upload.

This article might help:

What is Dedicated Internet Access?

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It ultimately depends on what the ISP agreement is and what was negotiated when the circuit was installed. Most connections are talked about with a single number that refers to the download speed. I have 110Mbps at home, but that’s only the download speed; my upload speed is around 12Mbps. At my office we have 2 x 1Gbps fiber links that are synchronous so we get 1Gbps in both directions over each line.

That being said; most business connections are synchronous so the DL/UL speeds are the same so in your case the 10Mb would refer to both download and upload speeds. However, you still only have 10Mb of total bandwidth, but in two directions simultaneously.

Depending on the circuit I’m not sure you’d actually see that speed though, unless you’re the only one on it.