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| 10 FEB 2003 at 12:58pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Valadmin (10 FEB 2003 12:34pm)
My upload speeds are painfully slow but, my download speeds are regularly (depending on the site I'm contacting, of course) 150kbs and once or twice I saw 300kbs!
Kilobits, I assume. I was talking in kilobytes. I can't remember whether capital 'B' was intended for bits or bytes.
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| 10 FEB 2003 at 1:41pm |
ValGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rael (10 FEB 2003 12:57pm)
Kilobits, I assume. I was talking in kilobytes. I can't remember whether capital 'B' was intended for bits or bytes.
On my download window it says KB per second.
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| 10 FEB 2003 at 4:36pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Rael (10 FEB 2003 12:57pm)
Kilobits, I assume. I was talking in kilobytes. I can't remember whether capital 'B' was intended for bits or bytes.
B = Bytes, b = bits.
Communications equipment is typically rated in (Mega)bits per seconds (say 100Mbit/s Ethernet) while programs nearly always operate with (kilo)bytes per second.
Also note that, say, 384kbps is a signaling rate but there is some overhead. The speed that your download window (or whatever) shows is the effective transfer rate, only counting the data you're really interested in - no protocol overhead, no packet headers etc.
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| 10 FEB 2003 at 6:19pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | I have DSL.
Not much else to tell.
It works pretty well.
And cable isn't available.
D'uh! :
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 10:21pm |
| Deleted User | I have DSL and typically get download speeds of 90-100KB/s. However, the past few days downloads have come to a screaching halt at only 3-5KB/s. I tried calling my service provider (verizon) to troubleshoot the problem and got the following help: 1. Tried a speed test which showed no result due to the slow connection speed I was experiencing. 2. They wanted me to delete all cookies and temp internet files (I knew then I was in trouble with someone just reading from a list of responses). 3. Lastly, I was instructed to replace the phone line from my modem to the wall jack and if this didn't work to replace all the line filters on the other phones. (This was the final straw and I just said thanks but I will find the problem myself).
The solution after thinking about it was an old stanby that I was always told to try (and which I wish I would have tried in the first place) was when all else fails, turn it off and then back on again. Walla, I turned the modem off then back on and reconnected to the internet. My download speed is back up to normal. Hope this helps someone else sometime.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 10:37pm |
mszvPrivate Detective
Posts : 751
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hi,
It's interesting to learn that in some parts of the world cable is synchronous (download the same speed as upload). I think that in the US, almost all broadband sold is asychronous. A fast upload speed is supposed to be really good for online gaming, or so I've heard.
On my DSL, using the tests on dslreports.com, I usually get around 1250 kbps download, 100 kbps upload. So, you see, it's very asynchronous! My upload speed is capped by my DSL provider. If Covad was my DSL provider, instead of SBC, I'd probably get around 300 kbps upload, probably the same as I get now for download.
The worst part of DSL, in the US, is the insfrastruture. It has nothing to do with the technology. I buy DSL from my internet provider. I've had my ISP for a number of years, and I plan to keep them, if I can. My internet provider works with a DSL provider (in this case SBC) to give me DSL. The local phone company (PacBell) supplies the local phone service and the wires to my home. When there is problem, everyone has to decide whose problem it is! My ISP front-ends everything, reasonably well, but there are a lot of horror stories out there on getting the suppliers of all the parts to talk to each other. For cable it's different, the cable providers own the entire thing - down to the cable "pipes" going into your home.
Yeah, on the "power cycle" thing, I always do that, when there is a problem - I power cycle the modem, the router, the PC I'm using, everything. Then, when I have problems, and I call the help desk, I can tell them that I've already done that (!), and I can get the help desk to figure out what the problem is. In my situation, the problem has always been on their end.
All for now.
Regards, mszv
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