[Cobra]

It says I have a 1.15MB conn, yet the download rate is (max)160KBps. shouldn't it be higher?

[Fury]

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.

[Nix]

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 has some good tools to test your connection, and to determine if you're getting what you should be.

[Cobra]

no, it IS megabyte.

[Fury]

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.

[Nix]

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.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by Cobra
no, it IS megabyte.

no, it IS dumbass.








Had to be done.

[Nuke]

how many bits in a nibble

[karajorma]

4

[Flipside]

<-------- Has a 2.2 Mbit connection and gets around 210K per sec so yes, your download rate sounds about right.

[Taristin]

<---------------------- 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.)

[Fury]

8/1 Mbit here.

[StratComm]

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.

[Nix]

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!!!

[Flipside]

Don't feel too bad, we all started there until the addiction took a hold

[Taristin]

On a more local test, my upstream was 900 and my down was 3700. Good enough for me.

[redsniper]

*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.
*prays for DSL*
EDIT: oh, well... BT is working, yet again. My point remains that satellite internet sucks.

[MatthewPapa]

Via wireless G USB adapter....not bad but stil could be better.

[Stealth]

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

[Dranon]

2655/359

I've had as high as 4000/400 at one point, but this one is more like normal.