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27th Aug 2009, 10:05
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| oh so the isp's advertise the download speed not the actual speed of the service your getting |
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27th Aug 2009, 10:24
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 I think I'm confused even more  How is 10MB equal to 1.25mbps? or is one in bits and the other bytes? So a 10MegaByte connection has a transfer rate of 1.25MegaBitsPerSecond? Or have I got completely the wrong end of the stick? |
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27th Aug 2009, 10:39
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| well what carbon is saying to me a 10Mb connection is actually the download speed of 1.25MB, because 10Mb=1.25MB theres 8 bites in a byte, i think i got that right |
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27th Aug 2009, 10:53
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27th Aug 2009, 11:30
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| speed of my service is 10Mb and on a speed test i get round about 9440Kb/ps |
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27th Aug 2009, 11:34
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| Oh, I see. Yeah, they'll advertise whatever the 'maximum' is, it's nearly impossible to get that, but 9.4mbps in reality out of 10mbps in advertising is pretty good.
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27th Aug 2009, 11:56
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| Yep .... I have 20Mb connection and the maximum I get is 2400kB/s
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27th Aug 2009, 12:18
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| philthomas what?!?! you have 20mb connection and you get 2400KB/ps havnt you forgotton to add a 0 on the end because i get more than you and ive got 10mb connection |
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#19
27th Aug 2009, 16:34
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| NO ..... I think you are mixing up your bits and your bytes. kb = kilobit, kB = kilobyte (note the capital B). I quoted my speed as 2400 kB/s, which is 2400 kilobytes (not kilobits), that works out at 2.34375 mB. If you want an easy calculator to give you kb, kB, mb & mB equivalents, have a look here With Broadband ISPs, they always quote speeds in mb ... i.e megabits, so 20mb connection, for example, is 2.5mB (megabytes) Hope that makes things a bit clearer. |
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#20
27th Aug 2009, 16:36
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| yeah it does makes sense thanks alot |
