200kbps>? Fact Or Jokes?

[berton]

:lol: :lol: i have a friend say that he got 200kbps in kazaa, and 200kbps in imesh.. <_<

he also got say that he send a file through icq with 2000kbps (two thousand)

i juz feeling stupid if i believe it... how about u?? :(

[Jay]

i dont know about 2000 but i defenetly know that 200kbs is possible if use using cable. i got 210kbs from just 1 user.

[i_have_a.d.d.]

yup yup 200kbs is what im getting most of the time when i D/L 2 files thats my speed all together

[Paul_NFFC]

2000 is pretty unlikely but 200 is very possible i get about 150kb/s and theres alot faster connections out there

[Amarjit]

I got 374KB/Sec and I&#39;m only on 512/256Kbps ADSL :w00t:.

[Switeck]

Originally posted by berton@3 July 2003 - 10:12
:lol: :lol: i have a friend say that he got 200kbps in kazaa, and 200kbps in imesh.. <_<

he also got say that he send a file through icq with 2000kbps (two thousand)
ICQ must have serious mis-reported his upload speed unless he&#39;s on a seriously uncapped cablemodem/ADSL.

Even a T-1 line will max out at ~180 KB/sec (1,500 kbps).

It&#39;s not uncommon for a cablemodem or ADSL to be able to download as fast as a T-1 line, but virtually unheard of for them to upload much faster than a T-1 line.

[tiedie]

ive gotten 560somethin (stayed at that speed for quite a while) when downloading off kazaa.. fastest ive upped to someone was at 110kbps....

i get MBps on icq but thats only if i have my router hooked up and i send files from 1 PC to the other..

[DipSet Taliban]

It is possible i usally hit 250 with a good movie a very popular one than it might hit once 300

[DipSet Taliban]

Oh yea its a cable modem

[3pc.ChickenDinner]

I reached 856kbps this morning :D

[Xanex]

Originally posted by Amarjit@4 July 2003 - 19:24
I got 384KB/Sec and I&#39;m only on 512/256Kbps ADSL :w00t:.

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.

http://www.boomspeed.com/amarjitsingh/speed.jpg

[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 :w00t:.

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.

http://www.boomspeed.com/amarjitsingh/speed.jpg
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 :angry:

[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)

pontifex
fortuna favet audaci

[pontifex]

o btw, those are MAX speeds.... your cable speeds depend on how many people are on your node and how much bandwidth they are using (cable is a shared bandwidth setup offering you UP TO whatever they tell you.. usually bout 1.5mbps) also you can only recieve as fast as your host(s) is(are) sanding

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fortuna favet audaci

[Cl1mh4224rd]

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.

http://www.boomspeed.com/amarjitsingh/speed.jpg
Well, that is an awfully small file... I&#39;ve also downloaded files of similar size a lot faster than my connection is capable of. There&#39;s at least one possible explaination...

While chosing the location you want to save the file, and typing in a name, the download is already going. By the time the progress window is displayed, you&#39;ve already downloaded part of the file. The progress windows plays catch-up and displays an unrealistic speed. I know this to be true.

I&#39;m sure there&#39;s other possibilities, but in all honesty... it&#39;s not what you think it is. ;)

[wienerschnitzel]

Originally posted by Amarjit@7 July 2003 - 10:39
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.

http://www.boomspeed.com/amarjitsingh/speed.jpg
IE&#39;s downloader things is usually wrong at the beginning. If you downloaded a bigger file (not one that only takes a few second) the rate would slowly drop and average out until you get something that is about right. While doing that trick l have gotten rates close to 1000 KB/sec but it never stays that way for long. I can usually get about 250 KB/s from a good site or sources. Im on cable

[Livy]

i can get about 1MB sec, :) its at my uni though, and it can upload at leaet 500KB/sec

[Rip The Jacker]

Oh yea&#33; Well check out my download speed.........

http://www.fhost.org/x/krackhead2k/666.jpg

B) B) :P :devil: :devil:

EDIT: Oh yea, I know there are flaws in that pic. I only spent 3 min making it. :P

[mogadishu]

Originally posted by Amarjit@4 July 2003 - 13:24
I got 374KB/Sec and I&#39;m only on 512/256Kbps ADSL :w00t:.
thats impossible.

[gamer]

i normally see download rates at 250 average, sometimes it spikes up to 300, and i&#39;ve seen 350 sumthin, and i&#39;m on 1.5mb downstream and 512kb upstream, and in kazaa i can get an average of 300 on popular files, but 200-300 is basically what i get. btw i have cable with a uncapped modem, but an internet test said thats what i get (the 1.5mb down, and 512kb up).

[pontifex]

ok so im trying something out... i just got 4 dsl lines installed, and im gonna use a router to load-balance them, hopefully (HOPEFULLY) i will be able to get a total of 6mbps bandwidth... wouldnt that be great =) thats 768k/sec... thats almost 1 megabyte per second... w00t ill let you all know how it goes

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[ilw]

How does that work? could ur computer do the load balancing in a simlar way? I&#39;m soon hopefully gonna be connected to the internet through a network and through a dsl modem, is a similar thing possible?

[pontifex]

well if you have 4 x 1.5mbps then you should be able to &#39;share&#39; the load on all 4 lines... if you can do that, your max bandwidth goes to 6mbps with all 4 lines maxed out... though its unlikely that most servers will be able to put out that fast, one can always hope... im going to be using 2 cisco routers


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[Pitbul]

i have a 3.4 Meg Cable ISP and i downloaded Hitman 2 off Bittorrent at a steady 350KB/s and hit above 400KB/s some of the time. i have gone up to 300 on Kazaa Lite so those speeds are very possible given u have that kind of ISP

[Amarjit]

Shows how much you lot know, 374KB/s does not mean 374Kbps. There was this time I downloaded 1.2MB/s for like 3 seconds. :lol:

[the_faceman]

Shows how much you lot know, 374KB/s does not mean 374Kbps. There was this time I downloaded 1.2MB/s for like 3 seconds.&nbsp;

Yeah, everyone knows, 378KB/s is 2992kbps. You&#39;re on 512kbps download ADSL. I doubt you were getting roughly 4 times as much bandwith as you pay for, even for a short period of time. And there is definitely no way you were downloading at 1.2MB/s (roughly 18 times you the speed you are paying for ) for even only 3 seconds, like someone explained earlier, the speeds displayed, especially at the beginning of a download, or for a small file, cannot be taken as accurate.

[Pitbul]

Originally posted by Amarjit@17 July 2003 - 10:18
Shows how much you lot know, 374KB/s does not mean 374Kbps. There was this time I downloaded 1.2MB/s for like 3 seconds. :lol:
fuckin retard i know i can never download at 3.4 Megs jackass if u think that then u need brain surgery. the most i have downloaded at was 550 KB/s i ran one of thos test to show how fast u can download a webpage and i got 2020 KB/s know what ur talking about before opening ur ass and talking thru it :rolleyes:

[aintgottime]

Right now lets look at that picture&#33;&#33;&#33; Right I have a 1mb cable from ntl in the UK, for the first 500kbs it ranges from 500 - 300kb/s after that it will settle at your proper speed. What you guys are reporting are your first 10 - 20 seconds where the speed looks as if its going really fast. You can tell your proper speed from downloading a 1mb or above file so Amarjit your modem isnt really cool and its not really fast because you will not stay at that speed longer than 20 seconds :P

[aintgottime]

Right now lets look at that picture&#33;&#33;&#33; Right I have a 1mb cable from ntl in the UK, for the first 500kbs it ranges from 500 - 300kb/s after that it will settle at your proper speed. What you guys are reporting are your first 10 - 20 seconds where the speed looks as if its going really fast. You can tell your proper speed from downloading a 1mb or above file so Amarjit your modem isnt really cool and its not really fast because you will not stay at that speed longer than 20 seconds :P

[bigdawgfoxx]

Ok..well i have hit 400 sometime with 1.5mb dsl...which i know shouldnt happen but often does ...from websites i can get a steady 300kb/s...but my max should be like 188..but you CAN reach those increadible speeds

[tim2003uk]

hey how do u make kazaa downloads go faster
i really wanna know
cos i have ntl:home broadband 256 and its always on average 15kb/s.
HELP ME PLEASE&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

[ilw]

Look in the faqs and the tips section to see how to get the best speeds in kazaa. But 32k is ur max u will not get better than it on Kazaa. Bigdawgs speeds are because of web page compression (Kazaa files cannot be compressed in the same manner) and incorrect reporting of speeds as has been mentioned earlier in this thread.