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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cobra on April 22, 2005, 12:32:20 am

Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Cobra on April 22, 2005, 12:32:20 am: It says I have a 1.15MB conn, yet the download rate is (max)160KBps. shouldn't it be higher?
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Fury on April 22, 2005, 12:44:32 am: Nope.

1536 (1.5 Mbit) / 8 = 192 kB/sec which is your theoretical max download speed. The real speed is slightly lower as the network protocol takes some bandwidth, etc.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Nix on April 22, 2005, 12:45:30 am: 1.15 Megabit per second, not megabyte. That's about right for your speeds actually. It also depends on the other side, if they have a connection that's as fast as yours, or using a bandwidth limiter.
Broadbandreports (http://www.broadbandreports.com) has some good tools to test your connection, and to determine if you're getting what you should be.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Cobra on April 22, 2005, 12:46:47 am: no, it IS megabyte.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Fury on April 22, 2005, 12:48:48 am: Nope, it is always megabit not megabyte when it comes to said broadband bandwidth. Divide it by 8 and you get the real theoretical max bandwidth.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Nix on April 22, 2005, 01:13:11 am: Normally, your speed will be labeled as
X.XXMbit instead of MB, because normally, Megabyte is abbreviated as MB. You'll see it all over Windows like that. The proper abbreviation for network speeds is Mbit, for Megabit. Same thing goes for Gigabit ethernet speeds, it's the same exact principle, just uses bits instead of bytes.

When talking about network transfer speeds, everything is divided down into bits instead of bytes. The bit is the smallest form of data, and 8 bits make a byte. Digital data can be transmitted by 0's and 1's, which are the binary bits that a computer can interpret as data.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: BlackDove on April 22, 2005, 01:24:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Cobra
no, it IS megabyte.

no, it IS dumbass.

Had to be done.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Nuke on April 22, 2005, 04:33:04 am: how many bits in a nibble
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: karajorma on April 22, 2005, 04:50:01 am: 4
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Flipside on April 22, 2005, 01:53:20 pm: <-------- Has a 2.2 Mbit connection and gets around 210K per sec so yes, your download rate sounds about right.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Taristin on April 22, 2005, 02:22:26 pm: <---------------------- Has a crazy fast conn.

This was my results from testing on a server 3k miles away, with all of my IM programs running. And IRC. And Shareaza.

Edit: Actually, Hmm. I did another test on a server that wasn't as loaded, and got these results. (Mind you, I share this conn with my parent's PC, and my Dad is using it right now, too.)
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Fury on April 22, 2005, 03:01:29 pm: 8/1 Mbit here.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: StratComm on April 22, 2005, 03:15:47 pm: (http://www.duke.edu/~cek6/speedtest.jpg)

DUDE! (though my upload could be better)

Something tells me though that I'm more limited by my university network architecture than the speed of the connection itself.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Nix on April 22, 2005, 03:24:39 pm: Mine would be a little green sliver of the bar, in fact, it'd probably be so small, there'd be no color!
56k blowzors

Though at my University... makes me wanna show my "O" face.
8446/4772

WHEEE!!!

(http://www.student.suu.edu/~barn3987/speedtest.bmp)
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Flipside on April 22, 2005, 03:29:31 pm: :lol: Don't feel too bad, we all started there until the addiction took a hold ;)
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Taristin on April 22, 2005, 03:43:09 pm: On a more local test, my upstream was 900 and my down was 3700. Good enough for me. :)
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: redsniper on April 22, 2005, 03:53:55 pm: *mumbles something about living in a technological vacuum and having to suffer with 56k or satellite internet*
and I got bittorrent working for a while but now it's farked again. :sigh:
*prays for DSL*
EDIT: oh, well... BT is working, yet again. My point remains that satellite internet sucks.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: MatthewPapa on April 22, 2005, 03:59:34 pm: Via wireless G USB adapter....not bad but stil could be better.

(http://freespaceserver.cjb.net/randomscreenies/speed.jpg)
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Stealth on April 22, 2005, 04:32:21 pm: remember that if you've got a T1 for instance (1.54) then in theory you'd have, say, 192K, but you won't ever see that... you lose some to Ethernet, some to encryption, etc. .. it's possible to work it all out, so you can see what you'll actually be seeing in reality... all depends on the type of connection, and what you use it for
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Dranon on April 22, 2005, 07:24:35 pm: 2655/359

I've had as high as 4000/400 at one point, but this one is more like normal.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 22, 2005, 08:46:42 pm: And this is the time I really feel bad about my 56k connection. That, and when I want to download anything.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Taristin on April 22, 2005, 09:01:51 pm: Code: [Select]
2005-04-22 22:01:22 EST: 4944 / 912 Your download speed : 5062823 bps, or 4944 kbps. A 618 KB/sec transfer rate. Your upload speed : 934361 bps, or 912 kbps.

:D:D:D
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: BlackDove on April 23, 2005, 05:50:29 am: Quote
16586 KB downloaded in 18.58 seconds.
This gives a download speed of 7141 kbps or 892.58 KB/s

My home almost kicks Universities ass.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Carl on April 23, 2005, 06:16:59 am: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/990dfade.gif)

hmmm.
Title: Question about my Conn
Post by: Setekh on April 23, 2005, 07:17:02 am: I would take that bandwidth test.. but it would just be embarassing. :p