[PLUG-TALK] ADSL Service vs. Transfer Speeds

[Tony Rick]

...and mediafire upload is notoriously slow, on top of that...

- tony

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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