Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I wanted to be able to reconcile my 5 meg download speed to the 600 kbps I can achieve. Viiiper explained and i will share it with you. The ISP speeds are measured in BITS, so 5 megabits per second (or 5,000,000 bits) There are 1,024 bits in a KILOBIT There are 8 KILOBITS in a KILOBYTE The download speed that your firefox shows is in KILOBYTES per second. So take the 5,000,000 (5 megabits) divided by 1024 to get to Kilobits = 4,882.81 Kilobits per second 4,882.81 divided by 8 (Kilobits to kilobytes) = 610.35 Kilobytes per second. There is always some overhead in the bandwidth for "handshaking etc" so you wont achieve the full capacity. I hope this is useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BertieG Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 And dont forget that ISPs lie to you about download speeds as well.I have a 20 meg download with Virgin media but have not once had the full speed I should.It doesnt matter what time of the day I try either it never reaches its maximum speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I have 20meg but I get 1.5mb. It just depends what your exchange will let you have. Check http://www.dslzoneuk.net/ brilliant for checking speeds and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Obviously you can just divide by 8,192 to convert from megabits per second (mbps) to kilobytes per second (kbps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Seth*EBDA* Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 also remember that if your on a cable connection like roadrunner or comcast, its not a dedicated pipe to just your home. Its a distro between you and everyone on your trunk. So if you have a bunch of college kids living near you, your prolly going to have problems...damn college kids and thier BitTorrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenADunn~SPARTA~ Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Yes, Home Broadband generally has a 50/1 contension rate (up to 50 users). That is why I got my work to put one in for me, a Work contension rate is only 20/1 - it costs more though, but hey, I don't pay for it ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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