abdurrahman Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Hi everybodyI have a very big problem.I have bought an Internet connection from "Turk Telekom" Company (Turkey's biggest ISP Company). The company says me that "your download speed is 1 Mbps" but I have been downloading files with the maximum speed of 100 Kbps.And I have to say this information. " I download with speed of 100Kbps only at nights " . Can anybody explain me why my speed is so low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amocanu Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 when it comes to transfer speeds, they calculate the speed in bits/sec, not bytes/sec1Kilobit/sec = 1000 bits/sec1Kilobyte/sec = 1024 bytes/sec = 8192 bits/secSo....1Megabit/sec (1Mbps) = 125 Kilobytes/sec (KB/s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilkorn Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 1mb = 125kb/s. So your absolute max in a perfect world would be 125kb/s, so 100kb/s is about right considering you can never get the full max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdurrahman Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 many thanks for your dear helpsBelieve me that I didn't know 1mbps is equal to 125 kbps . I thought that 1 mbps is equal to 1024 kbps. I really happy for these answersgood day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmaugyGrrr Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) My (maybe really flawed) calculations suggest that the real-world TCP/IP download speed on a connection of 1024KB (or 1MB) would download at a transfer speed of 108 kilobytes per second. Edited December 16, 2007 by SmaugyGrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdurrahman Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 maybe you are right but sometimes i could downloaded files with speed of 160 kbps. it is so interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmaugyGrrr Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 They might have contained easily-compressible data. Try downloading a file full of zeroes compared to a .zip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 *flails arms in panic*People!!! The key part that just about EVERYONE in this thread missed is the capitalization! 1Mbps = One megabit per second. The lowercase 'b' indicates a bit. 1MBps = One megabyte per second. Uppercase 'B' indicates a byte.Just to minimize confusion, I'll typically write rated network speeds in terms of Mbps, while I'll write download speeds in KB/s or MB/s. That way there's a clear distinction between the two.Now that that's been said, it makes sense that your 1Mbps connection is getting you about 100KB/s download speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 *flails arms in panic*People!!!At last. I was surprised no one reacted to this sort of nonsense: "1mb = 125kb/s"What about $1M = $125k ? still fine ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Typically shorthand for money uses capital letters (B, M, K). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdurrahman Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 so i have understood that 1mbps=(approximately)100 kbps.the download speed of 100kbps is good and normal. If there is another important thing,please say me . If there isn't any other thing, I thank for all friendly helps.Good day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 so i have understood that 1mbps=(approximately)100 kbps.You definitely can't put it like that, re-read Xzian's post, there are bits on one side and bytes on the other side, you can't just write 'bps' for both, it doesn't make sense !Check your speed on test sites, like this one for instance. It should show at least 500kb/sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siginet Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 They advertise 1mbps... so you have a max dl speed of 125KBps.Yeah it is confusing. Like Zxian said. Watch for the capitalization.When you download it should be rated with a capital "B".There are 8 bits in a Byte.Like 8 nibbles on a sandwitch equals a Bite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 There are 8 bits in a Byte.Like 8 nibbles on a sandwitch equals a Bite. Not to make things more confusing... There are 4 bits to a nibble, and 2 nibbles to a Byte. The reason why they named this is because 4 bits is the exact amount of data stored in a hexadecimal number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I think Siginet was joking with his particular nibbles example But your explanation of nibbles is right on the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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