Goanet] What's your internet speed? Thanks to many who came back on this (including privately)
Of the many I received, this one’s speed was the highest so far 14785 kbps download 490 kbps upload Server: Melbourne (he sent me the actual result page as it displayed). That means he is on at least 15 Mbps speed BB connetion (as Mario said, one can get even 20mbps for additional payment) In Goa, BSNL offers upto 2mbps for home users and upto Max.8mbps for business We are on 1000 plan which says min. speed 384kbps to upto Max.2mbps But my test result showed 316kbps download 456kbps upload Note: Test results are never the same depending on how busy is the server or IPs bandwidth or how many people sharing the load at the same time. I even got.. 210 download 325 upload Because we are on 1000 plan it should have given us a minimum speed of 384download but strangely we get lot less than that and rarely we get more than that too Max. noted so far 676download. Other BSNL Plans as follows: HOMEs Plan/Rs. Speed Usage limit 125 256kbps-2mbps 150mb 250 256kbps-2mbps 1GB 500 256kbps-2mbps 2.5GB 1000 384kbps-2mbps 5 GB 1800 512kbps-2mbps 10 GB 3300 2mbps 20 GB Unlimited usage plans. 750 upto 256kbps 1350 upto 512kbps http://bsnl.in/service/dataone_tariff.htm Every additional mb (over the usage limit) cost about 80 paise Plus you pay the line rental, taxes, cess and any call charges that you may have made during the month. We pay about 1400 fixed pm if we do not exceed the usage limit. Now, what is Upload/ Download? When we browse the internet from one page/site/pic to another it actually downloads the data from the WWW in the form of text, colours, pic, video etc. For every download there is always corresponding upload this is because to get the info from the net it has to send some info too and that’s upload. When downloading pics, video, data etc, download meter is faster than the upload meter. e.g. If you wish to download a 700kb picture/photo your total upload/download would be around 1000kb (=1mb) One Pic can be of up to 3mb in its original size with 10MP camera ( not all pics taken by that camera are of 3mb each some can be less than 1mb depending upon the colours or type of pic and its background etc). Similarly, when we upload a photo or a video clip then the upload meter is faster than download. e.g. 5 minutes video in MP4 would be about 50mb in size which means your total upload/download would be say about 70mb and if you do this after crossing your permissible monthly usage limit, the same video will cost you about Rs.56 + Tax A photo would cost about Rs.3. Note: I am not expert in this ‘bytes’ language and I could go wrong. Corrections welcome. This may also help (just compilled) now, we talk about bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, Gigabytes say in about 5-10 years we might talk in terabytes, pitabytes etc so, what's byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte etc ? 1 bite 8 bites makes 1 Byte 1000bytes make 1 kilobyte (KB) 1000KB makes 1 Megabyte (MB) 1000MB makes 1 Gigga Byte (GB) 1000GB makes 1 Terabyte (TB) 1000TB makes 1 Petabyte (PB) 1000PB makes 1 Exabyte (EB) [email protected] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
