>
> shempmcgurk wrote:
>
> >--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> >wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You say Korea has 21 mbps. I don't know what that means,
> >actually.
> > > > I have high speed internet through my cable TV company...how
> >many
> > > > mbps is that (whatever mbps means)?
> > >
> > > Test yourself (throughput you get vs. what you pay
> > > for) with: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> > >
> > > To my great surprise, Wanadoo/France Telecom being
> > > the spawn of Satan and all, I pay for 8 Mbps and
> > > get 8 Mbps consistently.
> > >
> >
> >Okay. I did the test: 2940 kbps download speed and 495 kbps
upload
> >speed.
> >
> >Doesn't seem so good, does it?
> >
> >
> >
> Divide by 8 to get the mbps which would be around 3-4 mbps which
is
> pretty standard for cable in the US. I only get 1.5 mbps on DSL
but I
> will probably be going to some kind of business account a little
later
> on with faster download and more important for my business faster
> uploads. They tend to cap upload speeds.
>
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You would divide kilobits by 1000 to get megabits per second, so
2940 kilo bits/second is 2.9 megabits/second. Download speed is not
measured in bytes (for which you would divide bits by eight), but
bits.
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