Eircom Downloads speed

El_mariachi

i just got Eircom hime plus . 2 mb download/ 128 up or something (yeah not mad into computers)

but anyway, when i download a file it come at 211kb/s and the max i saw was 220kb/s

is that slow for 2mb dsl or is it the correct speed it downloads at,

highlydebased

Contention!

Over 200kb/s for a file to download sounds about right. You will NEVER get 2mb/s! Your connection, should be connected in or around 2mb/s however.

Pacifico

You are getting 220KB/s on a download not 220Kb/s

El_mariachi

Pacifico wrote:

You are getting 220KB/s on a download not 220Kb/s

whats the differance?

Neon circle, i did a speed test on speedtest.net

download was 1.75 mb

the_syco

El_mariachi wrote:

whats the differance?

The small b stands for bits, and the big B, for bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so 50KB/sec = 400Kb/sec

Pacifico

On a 2Meg line you should be connected at 2048Kb/s, divide that by 8 to get the equivalent in Bytes, 2048/8 = 256KB/s. Thats what you should get on a download but you lose a bit due to overheads, contention and noise.

El_mariachi wrote:

whats the differance?

Neon circle, i did a speed test on speedtest.net

download was 1.75 mb

Thats 1750Kb/s which means your max download should be 218KB/s

El_mariachi

thanks you all very much! my question is 100% answered now!

highlydebased

the_syco wrote:

The small b stands for bits, and the big B, for bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so 50KB/sec = 400Kb/sec

Thanks for explaining that. Was something that had puzzled me personally

altered121

up to 48:1 contention on eircom 1 and 2mb connections goes down on their 3mb connections