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CAOS Forums => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Shaun Martin on 2005-11-10T15:16:31-06:00 (Thursday)

Title: This just in... Dial-up better than our connection on campus
Post by: Shaun Martin on 2005-11-10T15:16:31-06:00 (Thursday)
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Last Result:
Download Speed: 145 kbps (18.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 63 kbps (7.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Title: Re: This just in... Dial-up better than our connection on campus
Post by: Geoff Schreiber on 2005-11-10T15:53:56-06:00 (Thursday)
Quotemartins wrote:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Last Result:
Download Speed: 145 kbps (18.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 63 kbps (7.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

You need to take a networking class....  Dial-up runs at 56 kbps (7 KB/sec transfer rate)....  and it is EXTREMELY rare that any dial-up connection has ever achieved 7 KB/sec anyway...

kb or Kb =kilobits
KB = kilobytes

So the connection is slow...but not slower than dial-up yet...just getting close.
 :roll:
Title: Re: This just in... Dial-up better than our connection on campus
Post by: Tyler on 2005-11-10T18:55:21-06:00 (Thursday)
To emphasize, if memory serves me, modems are limited to 56kbps by FCC regulation (laws), thus making the fastest rate (legally) possible is that 7KB per second that SchreibG pointed out.  And you are lucky, very lucky, to get that.
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