is dl'ing at arond 20k/sec is good or bad
 

a is 20k/sec good dl speed or not what do y dl at just wunded what is nomal and what is not wude be nice to know and what comp and os im on a G3imac os 9:rolleyes:

what speed are y and one thing is that most ppl only let me dl of them at about 10k mak's but some times im lukey and get 3 dl's at onse -10k 10k 4k but only when lukey thanks for saying its not bad:)

wow nice how much that cost? that is very fast mine is about £20 a week whith phone and some tv chanels:(

Peerless you are talking about Kbytes and not kbits??? For $50 per month... I believe I have to move. ;)

I pay 28 euro (about $34) euro for mine and have 768k (96 Kb) down and 128k (16Kb) up and this is cheap for Germany... you can double the price for a "fast" connection with 1,5Mbit down and 128k up. :(

Morgwen

UK prices are similar - 30 euros (21 UKP) buys 512kbps down/256kbps up (that's 64K/32K per second in 'real money'), although there's a bit of a danger that the tax-break the telco's get for providing broadband is going to vanish soon :(

hi i just found out that my contion is ment to be 150k but i only have a 68k modem if i get a beter one will i be abill to dl faster than 20k/sec thogh i nomily dl arond 17k/sec becuse i can get a new modem for arond £80 will that help (3+shift=£) £80= arond $55:confused:

$120. ;)

Yes of course if your modem can´t support the speed you need a better one.

Hmm... this isn´t really fast 17k are only 2Kb and this is slow... I mean even people with a 56k modem can download faster.

Do you have ISDN, ADSL cable or what? I mean 150k download isn´t very common. I also never heard about a 68k modem... I know modems for IDSN, IDSN is at 64k (one line).

Morgwen

no what i mean is i get about 17kb a sec when i dl im using a 68k modem whith a cabil contion whch is a 150k contion what i want to know is if i get a beter modem will i be abil to dl faster or not i went on that web site and found out i dl areond 17kb a sec and uplode arond 52 k a sec :confused: i am very confused i dont know about this stuf i know more about photoshop and that stuf so pleaz help em im on a imac g3 400h 500+ram 68k modem os9:confused:

28kbps modem = 3.5K/second
56kbps modem = 7K/second
64kbps ISDN = 8K/second
128kbps ISDN = 16K/second
256kbps DSL = 32K/second
512kbps DSL = 64K/second
1mbps DSL = 128K/second
2mbps DSL = 256K/second
10mbps ethernet = 1.25 MB/second
100mbps ethernet = 12.5MB/second

The figures on the left are the ones normally displayed on packaging. In practice, you'll get just less than the figure on the right *under ideal conditions*.

Sleepey - the 68K you have is the type of processor your Mac computer has, it's nothing to do with your Internet connection. It sounds to me like you've got a cable modem which allows you to download at 1mbps and upload at 128kbps. This is quite a popular and cheap way to get near-broadband speeds in some areas - it's unlikely you'll be able to get a much faster connection without spending quite a bit more money.

Even if you did this though, you wouldn't see much on an improvement on any but the most popular files on P2P networks - most files would still be shared from machines with much slower connections. If you really need to transfer data very quickly, copy it onto a CD and ***** it.

He should be able to download much faster than 17k if this is true.

You are confusing me sleepey. :confused:

Morgwen