This just in... Dial-up better than our connection on campus

[Shaun Martin]

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)

[Geoff Schreiber]

martins 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:

[Tyler]

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.