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| 228305 | 2004-04-10 00:46:00 | Hi I currently have the 1G full speed plan (thru paradise) and regularly pay $40-80 more a month by bursting the paltry 1000MB cap. I've been lokking at some of the other plans but my ignorance of some of the terms is hampering me making a comparison. At the moment I get a 600kbs plan with paradise which i can get download speeds of 50 to 200K per second - which is fine. I see Telecom offer other jetstream plans of flat rate at 256kbs which i download for Africa. At 256kbs what sort of download speeds (in K per second) could i look forward to and would it be sufficeint to play online games? Cheers Baz |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 228306 | 2004-04-10 01:02:00 | Hey there, I'm on the 256/k - 10 gig plan. I get up to 32K a sec download speed. Remeber its only 128/k upload. As for games. It will not make any diff at all. Your speed is independant from your latency (ping) |
Shaun Minfie (2961) | ||
| 228307 | 2004-04-10 02:03:00 | >what sort of download speeds (in K per second) no such thing as k per second. its either kb/s (kilo bits per second) or kB/s (kilo bytes per second). general rule of thumb is to devide the kb/s by 10. eg 56kb/s modem gives you 5.6kB/s (there are 8 bits to a byte + a bit for overheads). 256kb/s gives you 25.6kB/s not including compression which varies depending on what you are downloading. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 228308 | 2004-04-10 04:44:00 | > As for games. It will not make any diff at all. Your > speed is independant from your latency (ping) That's not entirely true. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 228309 | 2004-04-10 05:21:00 | > > As for games . It will not make any diff at all . > Your > > speed is independant from your latency (ping) > > That's not entirely true . > Can You be more specific? I changed from jetstart 128 this week and my in game ping has not changed one little bit . Of course I can set the games to use more bandwidth now but that will still not change the latency . |
Shaun Minfie (2961) | ||
| 228310 | 2004-04-10 05:48:00 | depends on the games. some games benifit from having a much larger bandwidth to use. think of it as "data transfer time" rather than "ping time" if you have large amount of data to transfer a higher bandwidth broadband will send it faster. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 228311 | 2004-04-10 06:55:00 | > general rule of thumb is to devide the kb/s by 10. eg > 56kb/s modem gives you 5.6kB/s (there are 8 bits to a > byte + a bit for overheads). 256kb/s gives you > 25.6kB/s not including compression which varies > depending on what you are downloading. I actually thought it was divide by eight 56kb/s modem gives 7kB/s max 128kb/s gives 16kB/s max 256kb/s gives 32kB/s max Sounds more right to me ;-) I'm on Jetstream Surf, finding the speech to be actually faster than 256kb/s as speed 'testers' have shown. I've had download usually at 33kB/s Good luck ;-) |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 228312 | 2004-04-10 08:42:00 | >I actually thought it was divide by eight which bit of "there are 8 bits to a byte + a bit for overheads" and "general rule of thumb" didn't you get :p :p ;-) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 228313 | 2004-04-10 21:56:00 | At work we are on Jetstream "full" and I know this sounds unbelievable but I regularly download at 300-400KB/s (yes kilo-bytes!)...makes for awesome downloads. I have many complaints about Jetstream "full" (the unreliable meter is the main one) but speed ain't a problem... |
falvrez (390) | ||
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