I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

[alexfish333]

I know this is a geeky topic but I want to hear from ppl like myself who aren't necessarily the people who have the SUPER DOPESTYLE geek connections.

[Kamal]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

1.5mbit = 150 kbps... thats T1 speeds and slow from today's standard (sorry dont mean to bust your happy bubble), most cable + DSL these days is over 6 mbit/sec

[KinKyJ]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

^^^ owned by the man

[asdf_admin]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

OC-12 at work and at home 970 SDSL.

[alexfish333]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

I thought 1.5 mb was 1500 kbps but I won't pretend to know more than the Kamal

[Kamal]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

I used to get confused too..... mbps vs. mbit vs mBytes ... these conventions are a pain in the ass. Easiest way to remember is whenever you speak about home connectivity, its megaBits i.e. 1.5 x 1000 bits or x 100kbits = the download speeds you see on your PC when downloading from the web

[alexfish333]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

I guess I had an issue with the kilobits vs kilobytes, ma bad

[asdf_admin]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

yeah it is bits. not bytes. there 8 bits into 1 byte.

[alexfish333]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

So when you guys are downloading most of you are getting it well over a mbps? I thought if I was getting say 1mbps and downloading an 86mb set I'd get it in 86 seconds Am I at least right about that?

[Kamal]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

no, when you download at home and see 200kb/sec, thats 200 kilobytes..... if it was 1,500 KiloBytes, its 1.5 megabytes/sec

having said that, check out the attached image.... screenshot while transferring files from mercuryserver to another server we own

[unkownartist]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

1.5mbit = 150 kbps... thats T1 speeds and slow from today's standard (sorry dont mean to bust your happy bubble), most cable + DSL these days is over 6 mbit/sec

kamal i,m getting starting speeds of 1.1 Mb on rapidshare then its going down to 800 kbps, i think thats what he means

[Kamal]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

thats burstable speeds and can be attributed to several factors including the fact that the first few packets of data travel to and from the 2 machines at near lightspeeds, once a steady stream of data starts to come in, it trickles down to the max that the pipe will handle

[beanzncheez]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

I've got a 12Mbps connection at home and my ISP is going to offer 15Mbps down pretty soon. Don't know if I'll get it though. My brother has 15Mbps/2Mbps at his house and gets that for much less than what I pay. Bastard.

[Santa]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

We got 384 KB/s (or 3 Mbit) as standard for ADSL in Belgium... And that sucks... (especially the upload capped at 30 KB/s and of course the limit in data transfer set to 20 or 30 GB per month).

I think I will switch to cable soon, as there is no limit for the data transfer.

[Lorn]

Re: I just got 1.5 mbs a second, how's bandwidth for you guys?

My connection at home absolutely sucks. Its one-way cable. Meaning I download over a cable but upload over a 56K phone modem. I look out my window and see cows...ugh!