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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by apearson on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:46PM (#18841837)
That is the connection speed from the device to the router. Not what it's actually transmitting.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by kureikain on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:35AM (#18843457)
Oh thanks you so much. Now it makes more sense.

Do you have any idea why it takes so much data between the echo and the router then? Other devices in home didn't take that much :(.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by aceofspades19 on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:46AM (#18843509)
You still are not understanding, the tx and rx are simply what speed they are connected at, not any different than your ethernet connection reporting 100 mbps or 1000 mbps, it does not mean it is actually transmitting that much data.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by kureikain on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:55AM (#18843545)
Sorry for my ignorance. You seems to know this stuff very well.

So to clarify, it's mean the speed when the device is connected at, but I saw they changing up and down? How does that get calculated if they aren't the actually transmiting data?

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by Karunamon on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:02AM (#18844509)
Automatic negotiation with your wireless router. The max tx/rx speed will change regularly, especially if you’re in noisy WiFi area.
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