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jeremy.king
Dec 22, 2006, 11:39 AM
You see I have SpeedBurst with Comcast, and I just downloaded VMWare beta. Check this out. 1.1MBps! Thats 8.8Mbps! Actually for a small time Safari was reporting 1.2MBps. Not too shabby for my 6Mbps connection :)

Just happy I am on holiday vacation and the series of tubes to my house don't seem to be full yet...


topgunn
Dec 22, 2006, 12:16 PM
Must be nice. Fast for me is around 250KBps which is on a 3Mbps DSL line.
pianoman
Dec 22, 2006, 12:36 PM
i have Comcast, too, and i've seen download speeds as high as 2 MB/sec!
Felldownthewell
Dec 22, 2006, 01:54 PM
Check this out. 1.1MBps! Thats 8.8Mbps!

Hmm, I'm confused, I always thought MBps and Mbps were the same thing. What is the difference?

I ususally get 650kbps but depends on the source. I was getting 1MBps (I think...it was ~1017KB/s) from F.E.A.R updater's FTP program, and thats over wireless!
jeremy.king
Dec 22, 2006, 02:50 PM
Hmm, I'm confused, I always thought MBps and Mbps were the same thing. What is the difference?

I ususally get 650kbps but depends on the source. I was getting 1MBps (I think...it was ~1017KB/s) from F.E.A.R updater's FTP program, and thats over wireless!

bits and bytes...big difference. B = Bytes, b = bits

8 bits = 1 Byte
MacBoobsPro
Dec 22, 2006, 03:11 PM
I dont think you will get 8 if you are paying for 6. ISPs set the limit at their end. Check that you havent had a free upgrade and they havent told you. Its happened to me before.

I was paying for 1 but got upgraded to 2 for free. Since then I have been upgraded for free another two times so Im now on 4. I get exactly 4Mbps max.

Try the speakeasy test to check your speed.
Shadow
Dec 22, 2006, 05:15 PM
Must be nice. Fast for me is around 250KBps which is on a 3Mbps DSL line.

Pfft, my tubes count as fast when they're shifting 100KBps on a 1MB ADSL line...
Markleshark
Dec 22, 2006, 05:45 PM
Pfft, my tubes count as fast when they're shifting 100KBps on a 1MB ADSL line...

lol, yeah, I got 120 on 1meg cable. :o
ITASOR
Dec 22, 2006, 05:49 PM
I have a 6Mbps cable connection as well (Road Runner Time Warner) and often get around 9 (~1.2MB/s). Wish I could get torrents up that high. :p
jeremy.king
Dec 23, 2006, 12:08 PM
I dont think you will get 8 if you are paying for 6. ISPs set the limit at their end.

Wrong.

http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=ServicesPowerBoost18502

Comcast seems to think differently.