200kbps>? Fact Or Jokes?

[Xanex]

Originally posted by Amarjit@4 July 2003 - 19:24
I got 384KB/Sec and I'm only on 512/256Kbps ADSL .

Impossible unless

1) you have hacked your modem
2) your isp has got ur account wrong and is giving u more BW ( unlikly)

512/256 adsl/cable (600/128) is limited to 64kBps(or b i forget) ( bout 70ish with 600/128)

[Amarjit]

No, you can see for yourself, I have a screenshot, and you can ask {I}{K}{E}, he has 512/128 and has downloaded at around 380KB/Sec on IRC.

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Originally posted by Xanex+7 July 2003 - 11:34--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Xanex @ 7 July 2003 - 11:34)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Amarjit@4 July 2003 - 19:24
I got 384KB/Sec and I&#39;m only on 512/256Kbps ADSL .

Impossible unless

1) you have hacked your modem
2) your isp has got ur account wrong and is giving u more BW ( unlikly)

512/256 adsl/cable (600/128) is limited to 64kBps(or b i forget) ( bout 70ish with 600/128) [/b][/quote]
3) That number is, for some reason, actually kilobits. 384 kilobits is only 48 kilobytes, which is the unit in which transfer speeds are traditionally given.

[Xanex]

Originally posted by Amarjit@7 July 2003 - 11:39
No, you can see for yourself, I have a screenshot, and you can ask {I}{K}{E}, he has 512/128 and has downloaded at around 380KB/Sec on IRC.

You can give me names of people who say they have chopped their head off and lived, they are still wrong. What you are confusing is B and b. It&#39;s like all those people saying they got BB speeds from a 56k modem

Learn about PC&#39;s and the workings of them , then u&#39;ll see. Never belive what speed programs tell you. Go by this, 100megs takes bout 30mins to DL on a 512/256 connection.

512/256 => 64

No more

[rossjman1]

I dont beleive any of it. I have a cable modem and my average speed is only 28kb/s for each file when im downloading a couple files.

[Jebus]

I&#39;ve hit 256k at my uni thats the fastest i&#39;ve ever seen.

Plus dont believe screenshots it so easy to edit them, like that red box round the number he would have added, whats the chance a 3 got chucked on the front as well?

[tralalala]

200 kb/s is most definetely possible if the file is popular enough and your connection type is fast enough.
2000 kb/s?? your friend is pulling your leg, no way, unless you have the fastest connection in the world which downloads at 2.6 gigabytes per second and probably costs 100000000 &#036; a month...

tralalala

[Queball79]

YEa im on DSL with 512/1.5mb I usually download at about 100kbs..But ive seen it up to 250 a few times but only when i have like 15 or so users im downloading from...Usually with my luck i find the slowest people on the net to download from

[infinitesquid]

actually, i&#39;m on a cable modem and usually don&#39;t go any faster than 50-70kbps, but there was one time a while ago where i downloaded and definitely got over 1000kbps. maybe sometimes you just get lucky? who knows.

[pontifex]

Here&#39;s some details for ya- im a CCNP working on my CCIE:

1st the difference between kbps and kb/sec or k/sec:
kbps is kilobits per second, 8 bits to a byte
k/sec is kilobytes per second, 1kb is 8 bits

mega is 1024 (im using 1000 below for simplicity sake, it doesnt affect the end result by much)

lets say you are me, i have a 3mbps cable connection
3mbps is approximately 3000 kilobits per second which is about 3,000,000 bits per second (this isnt strictly true as a kilobit is 1024 bits, but its ok for reference)

now to get your max transfer, you divide your bits by 8:
3,000,000bits / 8 = 375000 bytes
now divide by 1000 to get kbytes:
375000 / 1000 = 375
so my max speed is 375k/sec

now a cable modem has a much higher bandwidth limit than 3mbps, so you can spike briefly above that, but about 375k is the max you can sustain. ill put the real numbers at the bottom of this post. I&#39;d also like to add that a t-1 line is not an internet connection, its a leased line to an internet connection... t-1&#39;s transfer at up to 1.544mbps or about 193k/sec.

heres the real math:
t-1: 1.544mbps = 1581.056kbps = 1619001.344bps (all these are bits)
1619001.344 / 8 = 202375.168b/sec (bytes) / 1024 = 197.632k/sec transfer speed

please note that 90% of cable modems are capped at 1.5mbps downstream and about 320kbps upstream.

hope that was helpful, feel free to email me with any questions
pontifex at sprintpcs.com (put the "@" symbol in there its just to aviod spam)

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