On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 16:33, Jon Copeland wrote: > Has anyone here on this mailing list tried out this service? I'm > curious as to how much of a speed increase it actually is over normal > high speed internet. They say it's a 5mbit down / 1mbit up connection > but I was always under the impression that normal high speed was about > 10mbit down / +-768k up as I am able to download at about 900kbps > (actually wouldn't that be close to a 100mbit connection?) on some local > sites (such as shaw.ca itself) but on average I get 450-500kbps from > places around Alberta such as from the Bioware FTP servers. >
Think your math is a bit off here. 5mbit is equal to 5000 kilobits/second, divide by 8 bits in a byte and you get a best case download speed of about 625 kilobytes/second (and an upload of 125 kb/sec). Compare this to what I get over my Telus adsl of about 180kb/sec down and 65kb/sec up. So really, assuming a 300kb/sec download speed on a cable modem, your looking at around 2.4mbits down. > Now my question is this, isn't +-500kbps equal to 5mbit? The way I've > always worked it out is when I used to use 10mbit switches and when I > copied files from one machine to the other I would watch the Local Area > Connection properties and it would clearly show roughly 100k being > copied every second and with 100mbit switches it was around 1 Megabyte > per second, so that's how I've been working it out, so based on that > shouldn't 5mbit be ALOT slower and only able to reach 50k per second in > downloads / file transfers? > Always divide by 8 to get the real picture. 100mbit/sec divided by 8 is 12.5 MB/sec of actual data. > If anyone has used this service would you recommend it and is it noticeable? > No, but I have looked into Telus's highest speed adsl business option which is 4mbit/1mbit. I'd be tempted to go with them as they don't seem too concerned about how much data you move, whereas I've had to talk to Shaw a few times in the past. -- Matthew Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://magoazul.com _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
