[Cialug] DSL speeds

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ed <eykraus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
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.

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