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| Thread ID: 43684 | 2004-03-23 13:18:00 | Satelite vs ADSL...? Any favourites..im leaving behind my 56 k.. | Mcpisik (4924) | Press F1 |
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| 224658 | 2004-03-24 02:08:00 | >20-50 kb/s on a download (using DAP, latest was downloading ArkLinux) thats dailup speed. something must be seriously wrong with your setup. note there is a big difference between kb/s and kB/s |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 224659 | 2004-03-24 03:41:00 | >thats dailup speed. something must be seriously wrong with your setup. note there is a big difference between kb/s and kB/s Obviously there's a gap in my knowledge here, can you tell me what's the difference between the two(> kb/s and kB/s). I do get some seriously good downloads at times all the same, so maybe I'm quoting the wrong rate? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 224660 | 2004-03-24 03:53:00 | >Hope you got the Dockyard ISO's Not too sure, just went to the site and started downloading ISO. Actually its still being downloaded, this is my second attempt, first one didn't work and I held off for a while so I didn't go too much over my data limit. But perhaps I could make this the subject of a separate post once I get organised. What! the download just bombed out, I had about 42% done (using DAP). Just checked it now and it's back to zero. Anyway the tansfer rate was showing, only 7.8 KB/Sec. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 224661 | 2004-03-24 04:07:00 | kb/s mean kilo bits per second while kB/s mean kilo bytes per second. there are 8 bits to a byte. however rule of thumb is to devide the bits by 10 to get bytes (to take in account of overheads). eg dailup 56kb/s = 5.6kB/s ihugsat 1000kb/s = 100kB/s. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 224662 | 2004-03-24 05:52:00 | Thankyou for that. I've been labouring under a misconception and iHug is actually saying that there is a 1000 Kb/s potential on the scheme that I'm currently on. So, when I'm downloading and DAP quotes the transfer rate as say, 10 KB/Sec, thats actually, near enough to 100 Kb/sec. 1000 KBs to the MB, so at that rate (reaches for calculator) about 28 hours to download a Gig. But I generally get transfer speeds of 40 to 50 KB/Sec so if I was to start downloading Ark Linux again (third attempt !@#**) which is about 700 MBs then that should be, on the average, about 4.5 hours. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 224663 | 2004-03-24 10:53:00 | just been looking at getting ultra back on. i see they no longer have the VPN setup. darn that was a really good system. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 224664 | 2004-03-24 11:46:00 | I'm wondering would it be possible to tweak the software to upload using say jetstream starter connection and download at satellite speed? I know, not much point, but would be interesting ;) Didn't Ihug ultra use to be faster than 1Mbit downstream??? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 224665 | 2004-03-24 12:16:00 | i think you could get the VPN setup to upload over jetstream. it would be quite a good idea. just fireup the vpn sat connection when you want to download things fast. yes the speed used to be faster. fastest i've had it was ~500 kB/s (ie 10Mb/s connection). the early accounts used to be unlimited and unforunatly people abused the hell out of it. |
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