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Internet speed

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by 01427, Dec 17, 2007.

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  1. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    ^ yes kB is kilobytes and kb is kilobits ( i think) seph can explain it way better than i can :p

    im in NZ and i dont know what you guys are on about. Even in my old small town whangarei I had broadband ('unlimited' broadband @ 1000-6000kB/ps) and i was easily getting 250-300kBps download with Ihug. here in welly its pretty much the same but im with telstraclear lightspeed so im limited to 20gigs per month (for now anyway).
     
    Almo, Jan 17, 2008
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  2. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Monthly limits? My 10mbit would seriously object to that, I can go through 20 GB in a day...
     
    Seph, Jan 17, 2008
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  3. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    ^ yeah and i used to lol, 20gig is a pain in the ass but was gonna cost me $200 to get the lines swaped to my previous provider.
     
    Almo, Jan 17, 2008
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Yes. You are paying for 1000Kbits/s and are downloading at 112kByte/s. Connection speed is measured in kilobits per second (small 'b') and throughput (data transfer speed) is measured in kiloBytes per second (capital 'B'). One 'bit' is one eighth of a byte. 1000/8 = 125 so your maximum possible download speed would be 125kBytes/second. I've not heard of a 1000kbit connection speed before, I think it's more likely you have 1Mbit, which is 1024Kbits per second, making your download speed max out at around 128kBytes/second. These are theoretical maximum speeds, and it is unlikely you will achieve them under real world conditions, so 112KBytes/sec is probably around normal for a 1mbit line.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 17, 2008
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  5. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    thanks loony, i knew it was something along those lines, just didnt wanna tell someone something that was wrong. and putting it that way im on a 6Mbit line.
     
    Almo, Jan 17, 2008
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  6. jadin72

    jadin72 Well-Known Member

    thanks, i get it now... i had guessed it was something to do with bits and bytes, but i thought i'd better ask, just to make sure.

    also, anyone here have wireless internet? do you know how to stop it disconnecting spontaneously? (im using vista, so is that the problem?)

    edit: i think i figured it out... i was using ie when it disconnected... and it hasnt disconnected the whole time ive been using opera... may be a coincidence?
     
    jadin72, Jan 19, 2008
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  7. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Well, I don't have wireless, because my neighbour is a hacker.
     
    anandjones, Jan 20, 2008
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  8. CloudBoy101

    CloudBoy101 Well-Known Member

    Just add a password that is impossible to hack............like, ilovejebuswithallmyheartnicetryyoucanthackmyinternet
     
    CloudBoy101, Jan 20, 2008
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  9. Patton

    Patton Guest

    Two words.
    Copper sucks ;D

    Copper, in most cases, is very outdated.

    I have a DSL backup line, and until I did some major work on it, it sucked!

    Copper here gets a max of 10mbit/1mbit upload.

    Ethernet or Fiber on the other hand, can push 2gbit+

    -Jarrett
     
    Patton, Jan 20, 2008
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    thats not impossible to hack. Try something like wsw3ma?itloirwthbdwtblawwtp?uthttmwm

    Also use WPA2 not WPA (unless you don't have WPA2, in which case use WPA) and NEVER EVER use WEP.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 20, 2008
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  11. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Nah, I tried a tricky password like that but he still got in really easily. And I keep mine on WEP for my NDS. I guess I should change it to WPA everytime I'm not using my NDS online, but how exactly do you change it? And I have WPA2.
     
    anandjones, Jan 20, 2008
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Of course he did, WEP takes less than 2 minutes to forcibly break into.

    in your router settings, go to the wireless configuration, and change the encryption to WPA2 and chose a new key. Then change all the wireless devices to use WPA2 and the new key.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 20, 2008
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  13. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    ^ NDS doesnt like WPA, well mine doesnt anyway.
     
    Almo, Jan 20, 2008
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes, that is an ignorant and stupid decision on the part of Nintendo
     
    Loonylion, Jan 20, 2008
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  15. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    i thought so too! though if I enable my wireless to be an access point it seems to work, however my poor router doesnt like it for some reason and I can never get back into the config page and have to reset the router to default to change anything (which is pointless cause I have to do everything again)
     
    Almo, Jan 20, 2008
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  16. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Thanks Loony, it worked.
     
    anandjones, Jan 20, 2008
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  17. jossetteanne

    jossetteanne Member

    Lol... Let me show you mine guyz... :eek:


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    Great isn't it? I'm ALREADY using broadband with that... ;D
     
    jossetteanne, Feb 8, 2008
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  18. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

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    Finished the download in exactly 4 minutes 30 seconds.
     
    Born2killx, Feb 8, 2008
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  19. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Wow, your internet speed is fast, I download at about a 100KB. Amazing speed, I wish I had internet as fast as yours. I bet watching videos online is a breeze to you too.
     
    anandjones, Feb 8, 2008
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  20. ultra

    ultra Guest

    at home i get 89kb/s when not surfing, with surfing probably around 50-75kb/s. at home it's more for downloads that are less then 100mb or at most 150mb and mainly for surfing. anything higher i use the campus for that. on campus i can get, at most i've managed to get was about the low 4mb's [4100kb/s] depending on how high traffic is on the other side [the sender].

    rapidshare for instance, even with a premium membership the most you get is about less then 2.5mb/s.
    filecloud used to have good speed, i remember getting above 3.3mb/s.
     
    ultra, Feb 9, 2008
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