High speed internet

jasonn20

jasonn20

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I have just got 15meg high speed internet. The max download speed i have seen is 1.8MB/s wondering is this good? If it says 15m should I get 15MB/s?
This is one area i am not experienced with. It is faster than the 2MB/s which was yieding at max 270KB/s. My internet display says I am connected at 100MB/s and I am uncertain why all these number do not match up.

thanks
 
1.8 MEGABYTES is VERY VERY VERY good, I would kill ur grandparants too see half that and no 15 MegaBits is not the same as 15 Megabytes, cant be stuffed explaining right now but im sure someone else will pop in and do so.
 
jasonn20 said:
I have just got 15meg high speed internet. The max download speed i have seen is 1.8MB/s wondering is this good? If it says 15m should I get 15MB/s?
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Thats good, it's never anywhere near the quoted. You might get 15mb/s if you plugged your computer into the exchange! I have 24mb/s and can download at 3.5mb/s. Your speed is effected by:

  • Your distance from the exchange
  • Other people using the exchange/ISP/or something along these lines
  • Quality of the physical wires, or whether its fibre optics
  • The download source also has an effect

jasonn20 said:
My internet display says I am connected at 100MB/s and I am uncertain why all these number do not match up.
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That is the speed in which you are connected to your router or network. You could swap files between computers on the network at upto 100mb/s (if both computers could hack that), but the router/modem is limited by the speeds external to the network.

I think that is all correct, please correct me/add if it isn't anyone. Hope that helps, Doug.
 
megabits and megabytes are different.

8 megabits = 1 megabyte

So when u got the 15 megabit line, you will get (15/8) = 1.8 MegaBYTES

You're getting great speeds. The fastest thing in my area here is a 7 meg line, and i top out around 800KB/s

lucky prick :)


Its the same deal with the router/ethernet thing.

100mb/s or 1000mb/s is the maximum speed that the cables/interfaces are supposedly designed for. Problem is, home users probably won't be able to fully tap those speeds.

Mostly, its the slowest portions of the computer that will bottleneck things. ie, if perhaps your ram is slow. OR your CPU is old, OR, your vidcard blows, etc, that will limit the maximum amount of data that can be processed/transferred thru the cpu and ethernet connection.

Same deal with USB 2.0, firewire, SATA, etc. the mediums always claim insane speeds, that noone ever really sees. Its all hypothetical. Sorry :(
 
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