mweb speeds.what do u guys think

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howzit guys and ladies


i have a telkom 512 lin
mweb 512 uncapped home line

when i download a file.max it says its 52k kb/s .and thats from a good site
some sites only show 3.6kb/s

my brother suggested i change to
telkom 384 line
and mweb 384 uncapped unshaped

what do you guys think?
will i get download speeds of 384kb/s with this combination?
 
A 384kbps line would give you a maximum download speed of 40-42 kilobytes/s.

I do find it strange that you get such slow speeds from HTTP sites. Is it that slow even after hours?

I'm on 384kbps Mweb uncapped (shaped) and my speeds (after hours) are always 30kB/s+. So I'm actually a proud Mweb user :)
 
i've never tried it after hours.will test that

but i thought unshaped supposed to be faster than shaped?
 
Yes, unshaped is supposed to be faster than shaped. If you're using a shaped service and protocols that aren't usually shaped, then there's no need to get unshaped (which is the case with me).
 
mayurh said:
howzit guys and ladies


i have a telkom 512 lin
mweb 512 uncapped home line

when i download a file.max it says its 52k kb/s .and thats from a good site
some sites only show 3.6kb/s

my brother suggested i change to
telkom 384 line
and mweb 384 uncapped unshaped

what do you guys think?
will i get download speeds of 384kb/s with this combination?
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No. You havent mentioned torrents or usenet.
 
mayurh, please don't mix kB/s and kb/s, because 1 kB/s = 8 x 1 kb/s. So 384kbps = 48kBps.

So please correct your initial post, because 52kb/s is very poor, even for a shaped 384kbps line!
 
Pada said:
mayurh, please don't mix kB/s and kb/s, because 1 kB/s = 8 x 1 kb/s. So 384kbps = 48kBps.

So please correct your initial post, because 52kb/s is very poor, even for a shaped 384kbps line!
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Yes, but 52kB is good for his 512line.
 
sorry i didnt know kBs and kbs were different.i think its KB/s So is 50KB/s on a 512k line correctt? and good or bad?

about torrents.no not talking about torrent downloads. just normal megaupload downloads/rapidshare or from websites
we have shaped 512 from mweb
 
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Pada said:
A 384kbps line would give you a maximum download speed of 40-42 kilobytes/s.

I do find it strange that you get such slow speeds from HTTP sites. Is it that slow even after hours?

I'm on 384kbps Mweb uncapped (shaped) and my speeds (after hours) are always 30kB/s+. So I'm actually a proud Mweb user :)
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Note: After hours definition keeps changing. It can be at 2 in the morning and still not perform.
 
50kB/s on a 512kbps line is pretty good, since the maximum would be around 56kB/s with HTTP/FTP downloads.
 
Pada said:
50kB/s on a 512kbps line is pretty good, since the maximum would be around 56kB/s with HTTP/FTP downloads.
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wow then im happy
i thought im supposed to get 512kB/s hehe
 
LOL: welcome to reality where connection speeds are specified in bits/second :D

LAN: 1Gbps / 100Mbps / 10Mbps
ADSL: 10Mbps/4Mbps/512kbps
HSDPA: 7.2Mbps
Wireless: 300Mbps / 54Mbps
etc.
 
Well, ye, 512kbss / 8 = 64kB/s less overheads of 20% gives 51KB/s so yep - your speed is good.

Having said that, for about 50% of the price, you would only get 20% less data (41KB/Sec) - so maybe...
 
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