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Quantum:

--- Quote from: TheHalf™ on November 28, 2007, 11:25:10 am ---Perhaps I made a typo (hope not):

15000000 Kbps

15000000 Kbps is 1831054.69 kB/s
Or 15000 Mbps  ::: 1831.05 MB/sec

TheHalf™

--- End quote ---

Well that sort of makes sense using your silly American system, but nobody other than people who access to the backbone structure of the internet has speeds that fast.

TheHalf™:
I may disagree with you Quantum, I 'm with roadrunner (who thru Time Warner) acquired Adelphia that used to be my ISP.

Adelphia's backbone (US): http://www.adelphiacom.net/

And my current speedtest results via testmy.net:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 18217 Kbps about 18.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 2224 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/11/28 - 7:50pm
Bottom Line:: 318X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.46 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 5.468 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 253.32 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-GCF6OIWRS
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Media Center PC 3.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!]

TheHalf™

Synbios:
You'd be surprised Quantum, at the internet speed diversity available here in the US. A lot of people still have 56k, some have 768Kbps/128Kbps or 1.5M/128k DSL. The average joe usually has 3Mbps/384Kbps cable or so.

But if you're lucky enough to live in an area where FTTH (fibre to the home) exists or extremely fast cable, then it's not odd to find people here with 20/20Mbps symmetrical speeds at a residence for $65 US a month or so (average is about 40-50 for "normal cable").

Quantum:
uhhh what?

I said you couldn't get speeds like that unless you were part of the backbone, TheHalf I quoted you on speeds 100x faster than what you have.

And I don't mean connected to some ISP which runs the backbone (as almost everyone in this country is) I mean quite literally sitting on a server which is connected to backbone wiring.

20/20 is a long way off 1831/244

Synbios:
I thought you were aweing at the 15Mbps, yeah TheHalf definitely made some calculation errors.

He said "15000 Mbps  ::: 1831.05 MB/sec" which I think he meant he has 15000Kbps or 15Mbps, which would be about 1.8 MB/sec.

What's the average connection in England, and what do you have?

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