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Actual BB speeds

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  • 05-07-2008 9:24am
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    smyth1979
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    Hi,
    I'm wondering about upgrading my broadband connection. I've currently 1Mb from ntl. It's fine but really need to go higher. When I'm downloading the rate appears to peak at about 120-130kbs. Is this normal? If I upgraded to say 20Mb, would I get rates of x20 this? Or does it all depend on what website I'm using? Is 120-130 Kbs normal for this kind of 1Mb connection?


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    barnicles
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    On 20Mb Broadband you would get speeds of around 2.4-2.5 MegaBYTEs


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    Phlann
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    smyth1979 wrote: »
    Hi,
    I'm wondering about upgrading my broadband connection. I've currently 1Mb from ntl. It's fine but really need to go higher. When I'm downloading the rate appears to peak at about 120-130kbs. Is this normal? If I upgraded to say 20Mb, would I get rates of x20 this? Or does it all depend on what website I'm using? Is 120-130 Kbs normal for this kind of 1Mb connection?

    Yeah those are normal speeds.

    Connection speeds are generally measured in megabits/sec, download speeds are usually measured in megabytes/sec.

    A quick rule of thumb is to divide the value in megabits by 8 to get the value in megabytes/kilobytes.

    So 1megabit/8 = 0.125megabytes = 125kilobytes


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