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I got a fat 10 meg connection, its cable threw time Warner. BUT i never see anything download over a meg per second, ever. It seems to me something somewhere sooner or later should download that fast at least... not even torrents exceed 1 meg. Am I overpaying if I never see over 1 meg and am paying for 10? |
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You aren't looking at your speed right. 10Mbps is not 10 Megabytes per second, it is 10 Megabits per second. There are 8 bits in a byte, therefore 1 Megabyte is 8,000,000 bits or 8 Megabits. With 10 Mbps you should see roughly 1.3 MB per second. MB=Megabyte Mb=Megabit |
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Internet providers market their speed in Mega BITS per second. The download speed and file sizes you interact with on your computer are measured in Mega BYTES per second. There are eight bits in one byte. Therefore your actual file download speed will usually be a number around one eighth that of your marketed speed. They're not lying to you, they're just using BITS and that file size you're looking at is being measured in BYTES. Very common misunderstanding. Though you should be able to get up to 1.5 Mega Bytes Per Second download or so. That much smaller slow down might be at the fault of your hardware. |
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I pay 23.95 for a 256/64 kbyte connection. What I see for downloads is 29 to 32 kbyte downloads. I think my ISP in Northwest Iowa is over charging me. |
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your download speed is tied to the sender's upload speed. download from a site with fat pipes and caching servers like Microsoft or Sun. |
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To get better than 1 MB/sec you might need a Gigabit LAN card in your PC and a gigabit router if you go through one to get to your cable modem. |
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To get better than 1 MB/sec you might need a Gigabit LAN card in your PC and a gigabit router if you go through one to get to your cable modem. |
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i think the slowest lan you could have is still 10 mbs most connon is 100 mbs .. and with gigabit being 1000 mbs ,,all should be plenty to get full use of a 10 meg cable i net connection |
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imo 50% of the ppl that CAN access the internet are overpaying the rest are korean and chinese! |
