I need to ask a newbie question: if your internet connection is letting you download large files at a steady rate of, say, 250 (damn, i even forgot the units that are commonly shown on downloads; kbps in Windows download windows right?), then what judgment can you make as to what type of connection you have if you don't know what your service and modem is?
What are the various speeds for home internet users and business internet users nowadays? Reading a book right now, it often mentions 100Mbps through cable modem (megabits per second), so I'm also confused if that means MEGABYTES per second, which would mean I have never experienced that fast of a cable connection before! I also have read about oddball numbers like 3Mbps, 6Mbps, 1.3 Mbps, 10 Mbps, so I'm wondering what are the standard speeds nowadays for the average internet user despite all these random numbers out in the market?
It just feels like it was only last year when all I was given to know were phone modems that downloaded at 4.0 kbps, and cable modems which downloaded at 100 kbps ... Yet I didn't even know what the actual name of those cable modems were, while phone modems at 4.0 kbps could only mean "56k" (which is misleading because of a missing decimal) ...
Please Preach.
Thanks.
What are the various speeds for home internet users and business internet users nowadays? Reading a book right now, it often mentions 100Mbps through cable modem (megabits per second), so I'm also confused if that means MEGABYTES per second, which would mean I have never experienced that fast of a cable connection before! I also have read about oddball numbers like 3Mbps, 6Mbps, 1.3 Mbps, 10 Mbps, so I'm wondering what are the standard speeds nowadays for the average internet user despite all these random numbers out in the market?
It just feels like it was only last year when all I was given to know were phone modems that downloaded at 4.0 kbps, and cable modems which downloaded at 100 kbps ... Yet I didn't even know what the actual name of those cable modems were, while phone modems at 4.0 kbps could only mean "56k" (which is misleading because of a missing decimal) ...
Please Preach.
Thanks.