[PLUG-TALK] ADSL Service vs. Transfer Speeds

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Tony Rick wrote:

> 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,

   I considered that the service was in bits/sec and the transfer speeds I
see here are in bytes/sec, but that's a factor of 8, not 10.

Thanks,

Rich

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