Your internet connection

**Xiahou** · 03-15-2006, 01:50

According to DSL Reports I just scored a 868kbps. That's a bit lower than my normal that comes in around 1Mbps usually.

I used to have a cable company that gave me 3Mbps+, but I've since moved out of their coverage area and have DSL now.

**R'as al Ghul** · 03-15-2006, 09:30

rough test:
120.4 KByte/Sek (=963 kbps)
15.6 KByte/Sek (=125 kbps)

I pay for 128 Kbyte, wanted to up to 256Kbyte but my Carrier has some problems I haven't dealt with yet.
It's sufficient for surfing. Could be faster.

**doc_bean** · 03-15-2006, 10:11

Theorectically I should be able to reach around 5Mbit/s, but I've never seen something download faster than 600kb

**Just A Girl** · 03-15-2006, 11:13

as a rule of thumb you generaly devide your connection speed by 8 to get your max transfer rate...

56k modem connectz to internet at 33kbps
33/8 = 4.125Kb's avarage download speed

modem connects to internet at 576kbps/8 = 72kb's avarage download speed.

personally im on 1mb adsl.
so i avarage 144kb's downloads.
but that dosent mean it dosent sometimes go to 200+

**Dutch_guy** · 03-15-2006, 16:07

With Xiahou's test I got the following :

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dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-03-15 10:04:48 EST:
493 / 271
Your download speed : 493 kbps or 61.6 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 271 kbps or 33.9 KB/sec.

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have no idea if this is good or not...well is it ?

Note: don't know if it's important, but it's a wireless internet connection...

**Viking** · 03-15-2006, 17:46

Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

With Xiahou's test I got the following :

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dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-03-15 10:04:48 EST:
493 / 271
Your download speed : 493 kbps or 61.6 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 271 kbps or 33.9 KB/sec.

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have no idea if this is good or not...well is it ?

Note: don't know if it's important, but it's a wireless internet connection...

It`s good if it`s close to the connection you`ve oredered.
Generally speaking, it`s in the low end of broadband connections.

Not sure what you mean by wireless, but it shouldn`t do any difference.

**Goalie** · 03-15-2006, 18:55

I have DSL and am supposed to have 1.5 mbps, but I dont know the exact number, but it works very well when playing Multiplayer.

**lars573** · 03-19-2006, 04:35

Originally Posted by Viking

It`s good if it`s close to the connection you`ve oredered.
Generally speaking, it`s in the low end of broadband connections.

Not sure what you mean by wireless, but it shouldn`t do any difference.

Just what it says. His house or the phone poll outside his house is a hotspot. And you can access a wireless lan that way. And wireless connections are much slower than a wired one. Though the ones a wireless company or a city might install are probably better than the 54 or 108 Mbps that we can buy at a store.

**Xiahou** · 03-15-2006, 18:55

Originally Posted by doc_bean

Theorectically I should be able to reach around 5Mbit/s, but I've never seen something download faster than 600kb

That's actually pretty good. You're in browser download speed is actually measured in KBps, capital B, meaning kilo-bytes per second. When you're talking about network speeds, it's usually in bits per second, not bytes. It's can be confusing but as a rule, when you're talking about file sizes it's in bytes and when you're talking about network speed it's bits.

As someone said, there's 8bits in a byte so: 600KBps * 8 = 4800Kbps or 4.8 Mbps.