[PLUG-TALK] ADSL Service vs. Transfer Speeds

[Tony Rick]

Rich,

Make sure you are interpreting units correctly.  TPC transfer rates
are reported in bits-per-second, download speeds are sometimes
reported by an app in bytes-per-second.  My service is
1.5M(down)/864(up), and synaptic shows me about 158M max download
speed.  You can try speedtest.net to check your actual bits-per-second
speed.

- tony

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I wrote to tech support at aracnet/spiritone but have not seen a response.
> Perhaps someone here knows the answer to my question.
>
>   My ADSL service is listed as 768K up/ 156K down. However, I have seen file
> transfer speeds only 1/10 those speeds. That is, I normally see a maximum
> download of 77kbps down and 15kbps up. Usually the transfer speed is not an
> issue (except now that I'm trying to upload a 35M file to mediafire.com, and
> that's not working).
>
>   What might account for a 90% difference between the supposed and actual
> speeds?
>
> Rich
>
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