Hi,
I am confused about internet speeds and download speeds.
I guess (please correct) a 56 KBPs modem allows a maximum inflow(&outflow!) of 56 KiloBits ps of data between 2 computers. But still most(or all?) ISPs in Mumbai offer download speeds(the thing that u see in the browser downloader or a download manager) is only 5KBPs.
So when we here about Broadband Internet of 1MBPs or 128 KBPs...what are the actual download speeds?
Why dont all the people refer to actual download speeds rather than the max transfer speeds while referring to their connection?
Please Help!
Thanking in advance, Hrushikesh Tilak.
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--- Hrushikesh Tilak hg_tilak@msn.com wrote:
Hi,
I am confused about internet speeds and download speeds.
no difference there...5KBps = 5 x 8 = 40Kbps, whcish is what you will get with a 56Kbps modem.
So when we here about Broadband Internet of 1MBPs or 128 KBPs...what are the actual download speeds?
Thats 1 Mbps, not MBps..thats because all networking equipment is rated with the bit rate - how many bits can be serialized per second.
regds, Kishor
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--- Hrushikesh Tilak hg_tilak@msn.com wrote:
I guess (please correct) a 56 KBPs modem allows a maximum inflow(&outflow!) of 56 KiloBits ps of data between 2 computers. But still most(or all?) ISPs in Mumbai offer download speeds(the thing that u see in the browser downloader or a download manager) is only 5KBPs.
There is a difference between the small b (bit) and the big (Byte)... it's always small in Kbps.. coz transfer speeds are measured in bits bytes are ususlly associated with data storage for eg. (files on hdd, cdrom are measured in bytes/kilobytes and so on)
So when we here about Broadband Internet of 1MBPs or 128 KBPs...what are the actual download speeds?
8 bits = 1 Byte tht's why if you translate 1 Mbps line into bits it would be 1024 Kbps.. download managers usually do the bit to Byte conversion automatically for the user... now if you are converting a 1024 kilobit connection to a "KiloByte" connection it will become 1024/8, which essentially translates to 128 KBps (notice the big "B") ur getting
Why dont all the people refer to actual download speeds rather than the max transfer speeds while referring to their connection?
Download Speeds are always in Kbps not in KBps.. it's the download managers at fault not the ISP's
Happy Pondering Pranav
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pranav Joshi" merciless_messiah@yahoo.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Confusion... Internet Speeds.
There is a difference between the small b (bit) and the big (Byte)... it's always small in Kbps.. coz transfer speeds are measured in bits bytes are ususlly associated with data storage for eg. (files on hdd, cdrom are measured in bytes/kilobytes and so on)
kbps here does not actually refer to kilo bits per second. The actual term is kilo bauds per second. All data transfer over phone lines are measured in bauds, which has comething to do with the fact that data is not send in digital signals (0 and 1s) but in analog mode (in terms of rapidly varying sound levels). While the older modem technologies provided a conversion of 1 baud = 1 bit or 8 baud = 1 byte, the later technologies were able to get more than one bit from a baud, primarily using compression techniques.
However, I am not sure if the speeds of modems we use today are in terms of actual bauds or use a relative reference factor to make it look better and also since the customers generally think of them in terms of "bits per second" rather than "bauds"
Regards Saswata
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