Jul 24 2011, 8:00 am
|
|
Audeuro
 |
Standard connection at my school is 10 Mb/s up 10 Mb/s down.
|
@Audeuro: That's quite a nice connection for a semi-public one.
| |
The catch is that you get bogged down on the wireless, so you generally get closer to 8 up, 8 down. If you connect via wire, though, then that's 10 up 10 down.
| |
Oasiscircle wrote:
@Robertbanks2: The reason they do that is because information is sent in bits, standard binary TRUE/FALSE rather than in groups of bits: bytes. Perhaps, but that information is misleading to anyone who doesn't know the difference, and anyone who DOES know the difference could just multiply a measurement in bytes by 8 if they really need bits/s. When your average internet user sees that a speed test is telling them they get 10Mb/s, they assume that it's bytes, because pretty much nowhere else on a computer shows measurement in bits. Then they get pissy when their browser tells them they are actually only getting just over 1MB/s, and they have no idea why. | |
@Robertbanks2: It's the same thing whenever you see 3G and 4G (and soon to be 5G) because people assume the G means Gigabytes per second or Gigahertz per second or something, but it means Generation. It has nothing to do with speed at all.
| |
Lol standard download speed at my school reached 30Mb/s and the upload went over 5Mb/s.
| |
My net ranges from 40kb/s to about 300 kb/s on a good day. But i live in Ghana in Africa so its naturally slow.
In the US my cousin's one is about 1mb/s Download. | |