Labob Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8389 Content Per Day: 1.47 Reputation: 6126 Achievement Points: 54468 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 22 Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Posted October 5, 2012 I'm trying to get my ISP to get there shit together and atleast admit there radio is not as good as they say it is. So I get a responce back form them on 1 question about download speeds and I get this for an answer. Does this make any SENCE to anyone I'm thinking what the hell type of answer is that. Here's the answer. Further to what Shawn said, I realised something - the download speed you are seeing is 160kB/s, not 160kb/s. Tiny difference in capitalisation, but it specifies 'kilobyte' instead of 'kilobit'. 160 kilobytes is equal to 1.25 megabits, so this is on par with the speedtests. Awards
St33l Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 212 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 844 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 57 Achievement Points: 5154 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2017 Birthday: 12/02/1987 Posted October 5, 2012 Really? I don't think that's right I've always distinguished kilobits: kbps kilobyte: kb/s. Blackbart, LordOfChaos and hxtr 3
Sonovabich Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5197 Achievement Points: 131535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 7 Device: Windows Posted October 5, 2012 Never ever heard of a kilobit?
Crankster Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 388 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 23 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 171 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 85 Achievement Points: 1160 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 25 Birthday: 03/16/1975 Device: Windows Posted October 5, 2012 http://edoceo.com/utilitas/bandwidth-calculator This may help clarify the situation a little Labob. LordOfChaos and Sonovabich 2 Awards
LordOfChaos Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 3174 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 100 Topic Count: 78 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 1645 Achievement Points: 17423 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/03/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 27, 2017 Birthday: 07/24/1957 Posted October 5, 2012 nice link Crank. Clears it all in my mind...
Labob Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8389 Content Per Day: 1.47 Reputation: 6126 Achievement Points: 54468 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 22 Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Author Posted October 5, 2012 That hurt. From other calc's all I ever end up with is .16 mb using kb and the same using KB . Where the 1.25 megabits comes from is beyond me. From what I've read now the difference between the capital letter is SI values and BI values LOL I know WTF is that. * SI values are calculated using the Internation System of Units BI values are calculated using Binary Units. Binary units are prefered by operating systems At least I'm learning crap Awards
hxtr Posted October 5, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted October 5, 2012 hey Labob are you trying to troubleshoot a ISP problem? If so I have a tool you could really use. Look it up.. ping plotter... if you want it I can send to you. when you measure your network speed it is in kilobits. 8 bits makes one byte. the Bits are the 1's and 0's or the on or off, the byte is the letter A or B or 4 or 6 and so on.
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