November 2, 200520 yr Dsl here. Just got it a few weeks ago. It's like night and day compared to dial-up. 122 Combat : 99 Hits : 99 Attack : 99 Strength97/99 Defence : 99 Fletching : 99 Woodcutting
November 2, 200520 yr Alright, well I have a question. How does this whole megabit thing work? All I know is the internet speeds are measured in megabits...but how many megabits per second is what? Whats the conversion or relation between kilobytes per second while downloading, and megabits per second? How many megabits under each classification? ie how many megabits = T1? etc. Also, where can I find out my speeds? I'm on Rogers Broadband, but no clue what that technically means. :x
November 4, 200520 yr I would like to know speeds and cost of the internet and company, shopping around for best internet, I DO NOT WANT DIAL-UP. Also I was wondering if dsl affected basic t.v. reception cause my upn doesn't work with sbc yahoo dsl.
November 4, 200520 yr Alright, well I have a question. How does this whole megabit thing work? All I know is the internet speeds are measured in megabits...but how many megabits per second is what? Whats the conversion or relation between kilobytes per second while downloading, and megabits per second? How many megabits under each classification? ie how many megabits = T1? etc. Also, where can I find out my speeds? I'm on Rogers Broadband, but no clue what that technically means. :xA byte is the standard unit of measurement for harddrive space, but for some reason network speeds have always been measured in bits. A bit is 1 or 0, a byte is 8 bits. eg. 01000110. Then you just multiply by 1000 for kilo, 1,000,000 for mega, 1,000,000,000 for giga etc. So standard dialup internet is 56 kilobits per second, which translates to 56/8= 7 kilobytes per second. So 1 megabit/second is 0.125 megabytes/second which is 125 kilobytes/second. You can test your bandwidth here;) Where the bloody hell are you?
November 6, 200520 yr 1MB down, 80kbps up satellite. Satellite should be split from DSL. It has nothing to do with DSL. (the signal catually goes into the modem via RG-6 coxial cable :wink: So if anything its more related to cable.
November 6, 200520 yr 1.5mb down 768k up(not sure about the up). my mate has 1.5mb with 20gig for $50/month. $50 a month for 1.5mb? Thats kinda expensive, isn't it? My internet (same speed) is only $30 a month. Lol my satellite is $60 for my crap speeds. 169 MB every 12 hours. 3000+ latency. I'd love to have soemthing that cheap.
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