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["barrie moxon" <s.moxon@xxxxxxx>]

hi Terry.
try this.
http://www.cymru1.net/broadband/faq.php
I have sky and get download speed of 65 bits s.
but I am a long way from exchange, and a poor line.
this is  a bit I got from the site hope it helps.

Connection speeds are measured in units of "bits per

second", usually Kb/s (Kilo
bits Per Second) or Mb/s (Mega bits Per Second).
Kilo means 1,000 and Mega means 1,000,000
This 512Kb/s means 512 Kilo bits Per Second, 1Mb/s means

One Mega bit Per Second
and 2Mb/s means Two Mega bits Per Second.
In contrast, data transfer (and computer data in general)

is measured in units of
Bytes. One Byte contains 8 bits.
As well as KB (KiloBytes) and MB (Mega Bytes) you will also

find GB (GigaBytes) mentioned
when talking about file sizes and data transfer limits.
Indeed, for Broadband, data transfer amounts are almost

always expressed in GB (Gigabytes)
1GB = 1,000 MB (MegaBytes) [ or 1,024 MB to be totally

accurate]
1GB = 1,000,000 KB (KiloBytes) [or 1,048,576 KB to be

totally accurate]
1GB = 1,000,000,000 B (Bytes) [or 1,073,741,824 B to be

totally accurate]
Please note, however, that you will often see "b" and "B"

used interchangeably -
it is an easy mistake to make. So don't always assume that

when you see, for example,
Gb written in a document or web page that the author really

means Giga bits as they
could just as easily mean Giga Bytes instead (and vice




all the best.
Barrrie.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "terrcooper" <terry.cooper@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: [access-uk] download speeds


Hi all
Can anyone point me in the direction of a web site, or a document that can 
explained easily download speeds.

I have  broadband using a BT landline, and Sky as the provider.
The download speed is described as up to 8 meg.  When I'm downloading files, 
my speed varies between approximately, 30 kb per second, up to the quickest 
of 50 kb per sec.


I guess my questions are,
If the connection is running at its optimum speed, and say I have a 1 meg 
connection, what should I expect my download speed to be.  a.go. 10 kb per 
second, or something like that.

As I'm on a 8 meg connection, what I'm trying to find out is, am I actually 
achieving my optimum download speed, which at its highest is 50 kb per sec.

Hope all that makes sense.

Either an explanation from someone, or a pointer to somewhere that I can 
read about it would be great.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Terry

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