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Windows XP and Download Speed.
When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB.
Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
On 03/14/2014 08:59 AM, AAH wrote:
When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? When you download from the Internet have you ever gotten 40 megabytes of data on one second? Didn't think so. |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
philo wrote:
On 03/14/2014 08:59 AM, AAH wrote: When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? When you download from the Internet have you ever gotten 40 megabytes of data on one second? Didn't think so. Well, you can, but you have to be living in Kansas :-) (Google Fiber, $70 a month) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber Paul |
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On 03/14/2014 12:03 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote: On 03/14/2014 08:59 AM, AAH wrote: When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? When you download from the Internet have you ever gotten 40 megabytes of data on one second? Didn't think so. Well, you can, but you have to be living in Kansas :-) (Google Fiber, $70 a month) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber Paul Considering the huge amount of info the OP gave, I stuck my neck out and made a wild guess. |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:59:18 -0000, "AAH" wrote:
When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is that what it said, or did it say 37.9 mb. Most speeds I've seen are in mbps. Megabits per second. It take 8 megabits to make a megabyte. (Plus a very good mason and two helpers :-) ) Bits are little b, bytes are capital B. A style I havent' seen for any other measure, afaicr. Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? No, the people at the other end don't know what OS you have and it would confuse everything if people used different scales for different OSes. And the OS isn't really related to download speeds. Maybe some old OSes have lower maximums, but say you have a dial-up connection, or even DSL. I think you'll get the same speeds regardless of the OS. (I used to knock download accelerators for webpages for dial-up, but the one they gave me, when I threatened to go somwwhere else) worked well. But it didn't really change the download speed. It just identified repetitive portions and said how many reps there were rather than sending 100 or 10,000 of the same thing, and it left it up to the user to rebuild the webpages as they were before they were compressed. ) Try http://www.speedtest.net/ |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
Thanks for your information. "micky" wrote in message ... On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:59:18 -0000, "AAH" wrote: When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is that what it said, or did it say 37.9 mb. Most speeds I've seen are in mbps. Megabits per second. It take 8 megabits to make a megabyte. (Plus a very good mason and two helpers :-) ) Bits are little b, bytes are capital B. A style I havent' seen for any other measure, afaicr. Is it always per second or per minute? Does it changes in different os per second to per minute or other way round? No, the people at the other end don't know what OS you have and it would confuse everything if people used different scales for different OSes. And the OS isn't really related to download speeds. Maybe some old OSes have lower maximums, but say you have a dial-up connection, or even DSL. I think you'll get the same speeds regardless of the OS. (I used to knock download accelerators for webpages for dial-up, but the one they gave me, when I threatened to go somwwhere else) worked well. But it didn't really change the download speed. It just identified repetitive portions and said how many reps there were rather than sending 100 or 10,000 of the same thing, and it left it up to the user to rebuild the webpages as they were before they were compressed. ) Try http://www.speedtest.net/ |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
On 2014-03-14, micky wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:59:18 -0000, "AAH" wrote: When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is that what it said, or did it say 37.9 mb. probably Mb, mb would be millibit. Most speeds I've seen are in mbps. Megabits per second. It take 8 megabits to make a megabyte. (Plus a very good mason and two helpers :-) ) Bits are little b, bytes are capital B. A style I havent' seen for any other measure, afaicr. Undercase m is milli- = * 1/1000, capital M = mega- = * 1.000.000. -- http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ -!- http://www.rr.dds.nl/ http://www.dread.demon.nl/ |
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Windows XP and Download Speed.
On 14 Mar 2014 22:47:25 GMT, Rasta Robert
wrote: On 2014-03-14, micky wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:59:18 -0000, "AAH" wrote: When it is said that Download speed is 37.9 MB. Is that what it said, or did it say 37.9 mb. probably Mb, mb would be millibit. Yes. I misread it. Thansk. Most speeds I've seen are in mbps. Megabits per second. It take 8 megabits to make a megabyte. (Plus a very good mason and two helpers :-) ) One needs an even better mason with only millibits. Bits are little b, bytes are capital B. A style I havent' seen for any other measure, afaicr. Undercase m is milli- = * 1/1000, capital M = mega- = * 1.000.000. |
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