On Thursday 01 June 2006 4:59 pm, Ian Bruseker wrote: > On 6/1/06, Nick Wiltshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 June 2006 4:38 pm, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > > > the reality is you can't receive a file faster than it's sent. :) > > > > > > Interesting - I found at the last CLUG meeting (Devry) I was > > > downloading about 1.5MBps .. Wow. > > > I was astonished. > > > > > > and have seen 1.4M/sec on a torrent on my connection. > > > > > > > > > Do you mean megaBYTES per second :O Wow. > > > > I wasn't paying much attention. Next time I need a distro I'll > > watch...but wouldn't that be over 7mbps? I'm unsure of the math because > > of k = 1000 or 1024 etc. > > I'd think 7 Mbps is 896 KBps. Again, using simple math. 7 * 1024 / 8 = > 896
So when wget says 800, is that Kbits or KBytes? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
