Your Connection

[Vidi]

I have a 576 kbps, but i'm getting 2 mb <b> for FREE </b> because i'm such loyal customer.

Demon, you have to love 'em. ;)

  - Vidi

[erjin999]

Dude, every ISP in this country is upgrading to 2 Mb for free. Loyal or not :P

[desert_storm]

Download Speed: 214 kbps (26.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 64 kbps (8 KB/sec transfer rate)

[Andrew]

Moved to ch'town apt. High speed. Had to get a new high speed modem as old one was not working.

Speed at house:

262 kbps down

64 kbps up

Speed at Apartment :) :)

[Davidu]

Currently 56k dial-up.

Trying to upgrade to 512k external speed for 10 $/month.

Internal speed ( DC++, networks etc) can reach as high as 5Mb.

[Timenn]

Most of the times the download rate in kilobits per second is not equal to the download rate in kilobytes per second, divided by 8.

It's because almost all encodings use a parity bit (or maybe some other error-checking encoding) This takes up 1 bit of every byte, but makes traffic alot more stable (since that bit is used to detect errors in a received byte)

Meaning that traffic will be:

a = download rate in kilobits/s

b = download rate in kilobytes/s

b = (a / 8) * (7/8)

so with 1024 kilobits/s:

(1024 / 8) * (7/8) = 112 kilobytes/s (and not 128)

Oh, and btw.

Since I have moved to my own house, I'm plugged into a network with 100 megabit/s traffic! Yea