[AdamSpeight2008]

Please could we use a standard format for the speeds
kbps or kb/s => kilobits per a second
KBps or KB/s => kilobytes per a seconds
MBps or MB/s => Megabytes per a seconds
Mbps or Mb/s => Megabits per a seconds

[AdamSpeight2008]

ferrari12508, on 3 Nov, 2008 - 03:00 AM, said:

First, 40Mb/s isnt all that great of a speed. Right now on a weak signal (meaning 1-2 of 5 bars) I am getting speeds of 13Mb/s, and I have one of the lower tiers of service from my ISP. secondly, just because your download speed is, lets just say for example, a 75Mb/s connection, you would not be getting six figures in a download.I highly doubt that if you were downloading something from DIC, which I know has a nice and expensive set up, you wouldnt get anywhere near 5 digits. 6 digits would mean you were using 100% of your 125Mb/s connection. I highly doubt that any server would allow a connection of that size to go through unless you were directly hooked into it with a fiber channel.

To continue the ding dong

It is a fiber connection, my I.S.P. currently offers 20MB/s but 50MB/s and 100MB/s are coming on stream soon.
Is it possible that for the 6-digit download, I just got lucky and nobody else in the street/town was using it at that time?

Sorry about the double post

[ludjer]

AdamSpeight2008, on 2 Nov, 2008 - 11:09 PM, said:

ferrari12508, on 3 Nov, 2008 - 03:00 AM, said:

First, 40Mb/s isnt all that great of a speed. Right now on a weak signal (meaning 1-2 of 5 bars) I am getting speeds of 13Mb/s, and I have one of the lower tiers of service from my ISP. secondly, just because your download speed is, lets just say for example, a 75Mb/s connection, you would not be getting six figures in a download.I highly doubt that if you were downloading something from DIC, which I know has a nice and expensive set up, you wouldnt get anywhere near 5 digits. 6 digits would mean you were using 100% of your 125Mb/s connection. I highly doubt that any server would allow a connection of that size to go through unless you were directly hooked into it with a fiber channel.

To continue the ding dong

It is a fiber connection, my I.S.P. currently offers 20MB/s but 50MB/s and 100MB/s are coming on stream soon.
Is it possible that for the 6-digit download, I just got lucky and nobody else in the street/town was using it at that time?

Sorry about the double post

if you isp has a good inferstructure then you should be able to always get your max line speed

my home speed is 4mb/512kb sucks ye
then my box what i use for random things in europe is
100mb/100mb

i was uploading quite alot of things so my upload is not that great here

This post has been edited by ludjer: 03 November 2008 - 02:40 AM

[KYA]

damn, other countries internet infrastructure puts the U.S.'s to shame...to shame!!!

[jklaroe]

Fixed Wireless =X

[Nykc]

my speeds seemed to have increased without my consent. Oh well.



edit - jklaroe where you from? I was born and raised in Toledo. Moved to Columbus over a year ago.

This post has been edited by Nykc: 08 December 2008 - 02:02 PM

[mrloserskid]

hey whats up.
p2p torrents usually upload allot so if the upload speed is at 100kb and download is at 100kb
you just lost 200kb of speed.
to manage this use a torrent downloader like utorrent or lord torrent click properties then cap it.
hope it helps