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| 420567 | 2006-01-12 09:18:00 | I have a B/B subscription with Slingshot with a 1mb download (I just noticed today that they have dropped their rates. I questioned them on this and now they will offer me a 2mb download for the same price just to stop me from paying $5 less a month - anyway that’s another story). My question is if I have a 1mb download why whenever I download a file the best download speed I get is aprox 130kbps? (many times it is slower) I asked the Slingshot Technical team who said I should be happy with 130kbps and 1mb is the maximum speed although in reality you will never get it that fast. This doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense; if they sell me a 1mb download shouldn't I get a 1mb download?? Isn’t it like a car sales man selling you a car saying it will do 200km per hour, and then driving it off the lot to find it can only do 20km?? |
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| 420568 | 2006-01-12 09:50:00 | Have you gone over your bandwidth cap? | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 420569 | 2006-01-12 09:50:00 | They are selling a 1 megaBIT per second connection, not a one 1 megaBYTE connection. The difference is that 8 bits make up a byte, therefore, 1024 kilobits p/s (equal to 1 megabit p/s) is equal to 128 kilobytes p/s. Your connection is fine and you have nothing to worry about. |
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| 420570 | 2006-01-12 09:53:00 | This question has been asked many times before on this forum and I well give you the same answer as I have given many times before. It all depends on what bandwidth the site you are downloading from at what speed you get. I'm on a 1mb connection. The fastest I have had is 120kbps and on some sites it has been as low as 32kbps. Think of bandwidth as a pipe and say the pipe is 25mm in dia you are only going to get so much traffic through that pipe at once and if there is more traffic going through that pipe than what it can take it is going to slow down or at the worst you may come to a stop until there is sufficient space for you to fit through. Trevor :) |
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| 420571 | 2006-01-12 10:03:00 | Hate to think what would happen when ADSL v2 comes out. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 420572 | 2006-01-12 11:02:00 | To work out your download speed divide by 8. ie. 1024/8 = 128. If you download from sites on cheap, overloaded servers you won't get max download speeds so it is a good idea to check whether there are alternative sources if you find a server is slow. :) | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 420573 | 2006-01-12 16:09:00 | Hate to think what would happen when ADSL v2 comes out. Ha that's easy... we'll get the same crappy service Telecom has been giving us for the last few years... except it will cost us more. Cheers chiefnz |
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