<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eykraus@gmail.com">eykraus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
My DSL from Qwest is "1MB/s" plan... We all know you're never going to get that, but i think i'm not getting anywhere near what i should be... I'm getting 60kbps for most downloads... Isn't there a math problem to really determine the correct speed you're suppose to get?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>You're quoting the speed wrong, it's not 1MB/s it's 1Mb/s. "B" is byte, "b" is bit. A fair estimation is divide by 10 and on a good day you might slightly exceed that. So I'd expect 100KB/s on your link.</div>
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