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Question of the Day: Will you be subscribing to the new Disney+ R49 streaming package?
Telkom ADSL 8Mbps :)
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Dunno how I came to that value, must have gotten my calculations messed up.At 4Mb/s a 350MB file should take 11 Minutes and 16 seconds with 0% overhead so your 13-14 minutes seems spot on.
MidnightWizard
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Telkom Exchanges
Nup -- they are normally bare brick buildings looking like jails or forts
Look for the wireless antennas and the microwave dishes on the roof.
( also watch for the Telkom vans going in and out -- like bees to a hive
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MW
Oh ok thanks Optimal, maybe I will take a walk around the suburb and look for a building with that blue and green sign on it
Nup -- they are normally bare brick buildings looking like jails or forts
Look for the wireless antennas and the microwave dishes on the roof.
( also watch for the Telkom vans going in and out -- like bees to a hive
)MW
At 4Mb/s a 350MB file should take 11 Minutes and 16 seconds with 0% overhead so your 13-14 minutes seems spot on.
And here I was thinking ur calculations were fine, but u were on DC or screamer :erm:
UtterNutter
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Um... I download a 700mb movie in 30 mins, which equates to 1gb in 42 mins... on a 4mbps line.
Your line is not performing man!
Your line is not performing man!
Those blue boxes are called Street distribution cabnets.They are certainly not DSLAMS.They are merely a common point for Underground cable termination.
AmpleHosting
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Traffic in general on a 4 MB line is throttled to 40kb / 50kb per second for a single download.
The only way I can get good throughput on an international site is if we use a program such as Grab++ which makes multiple connections to the same server and downloads many different portions at the same time. +- 10 Then we get 300 - 400kb per sec
Which would then be 1gb in about 41 min
The only way I can get good throughput on an international site is if we use a program such as Grab++ which makes multiple connections to the same server and downloads many different portions at the same time. +- 10 Then we get 300 - 400kb per sec
Which would then be 1gb in about 41 min
Gekco
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I disagree.
I often get full line speed on single threaded downloads.
It depends to a large degree on the server you are downloading from.
KhoisanX
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At 4Mb/s a 350MB file should take 11 Minutes and 16 seconds with 0% overhead so your 13-14 minutes seems spot on.
Mega bits per second. If only more people understood that m isn't the same as M, b vs B etc.
AmpleHosting
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Who are you using as your ISP?
LancelotSA
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In every industry there is terminology that those outside the industry tend to get wrong...
Communication is about others understanding you. If this is the case then I can see no harm done.
Communication is about others understanding you. If this is the case then I can see no harm done.
to be fair mbps and Mbps are far less ambigious in the SA context as opposed to kBps or kbps.
i can't think of anything a small m would correctly refer to. microbits?
People going on about the megabits and megabytes.
IF I say I have a 4mb/s connection.
EVERYONE knows I will have a 4mg line and download @ 435kbs
If I say 384k. That is the line and I will download @ 40kbs.
There is no confusion here just the people that try to sound clever with their terminology. Its irrelevant!
IF I say I have a 4mb/s connection.
EVERYONE knows I will have a 4mg line and download @ 435kbs
If I say 384k. That is the line and I will download @ 40kbs.
There is no confusion here just the people that try to sound clever with their terminology. Its irrelevant!
Mineer
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Disagree cos what if I said I download at 48k what the hell does mean 48kb is way diff too 48KB
The problem is this windows mostly measures in KB/s not kb/s (which is what your line speed is measured in) and not everyone knows and understands this difference, which can have huge implication as to how resolve some members questions or helping the educated understand the problem
inthe last month there were a number of people complaining their 384kbps lines were only downloading at less than 40kB/s and wanting the extra 300 odd kB/s.
LancelotSA
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One individual that I recall. You also get people claiming that humans are having no effect on the global climate. There is unfortunately not much that can be done about stupid people!
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µ = micro (millionth)... m for milli (thousandth)...
bits vs Bytes are much more important as it is impossible to divide a byte into thousands of pieces...