Question about High Speed Internet.

[Scaper-S2k]

It's KB. Shows it when I download songs or whatever.


The sites vary on speed from 250KB - 350KB or so. I assume it's the other sites set speeds and it flucuates throughout the download.


So when I was downloading with the phone companies high speed last night, I get roughly the same range of speeds, and it takes the same amount of time.



So I guess my question is: When would you ever be downloading at 3Mb per second like the cable company or phone company claims? I could download a typical song in 1 second? I have not seen such a thing.

[Woody]

You ARE downloading that fast. The browser is showing 350 KiloBYTES per second. Line speed is rated in KiloBITS per second. 8 bits per byte. There IS some overhead, so a rough translation that works well is figuring 10 bits per byte (in the old days there were start bits, stop bits, and parity bits just to name a little bit of overhead).

You ARE getting the throughput they speak of. A kilobyte is 1,024 bytes.

1024x8=8,192 bits. So, 350,000x8,192=2,867,200 without any overhead. In other words, 3 million bits per second, or 3 Mbps. 3 millon BYTES per second would be right about 25 million BITS per second (without any overhead included). Trust me when I tell you they DO NOT OFFER THAT!

You are getting what you pay for. You just don't know the difference between a bit and a byte. Let's not even get into a nibble or a word! LOL!

[Scaper-S2k]

Okay, stop trying to confuse me! I do know the difference between a bit and a byte. I just thought this high speed stuff was rating at bytes per second. So when I see 3500/sec download, I was thinking 3.5Mb/sec.


Now it all makes sense.......they are trying to pull a fast one on people!



Thank you for clearing that up.

[Woody]

LOL! It IS 3 Mbps... Watch the CAPITAL LETTER! B is Bytes, b is bits.

Fess up, you don't know if you just got bit or you just got a byte. LOL!!!!

Oh, and a nibble is 4 bits, and a word is 16 bits. And now I am having flashbacks from college! Cripes... Anyone up for discussing mnemonics for the 6802 series of Motorola microprocessors? How about some good old machine language programming?

Thanks Erich. Thanks a lot. Now I'll have flipped out dreams all night. LOL!

[Scaper-S2k]

College flashbacks? I got flashbacks from highschool! Anyone up for writing a Turbo Pascal program? Cobol? C++? Anything?


I've been away from the nitty gritty for too long.


P.S. - Quit laughing at me!!

[matthewh25]

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