[Cialug] DSL speeds

[Ed Kraus]

i can get 160kb/ps when i use DAP (download accelerator plus)... And ya my
bad for wrong quoting.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> 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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