What's this forum like with dialup ?

3 megabits?....why...i'd love to have one. And not for surfing the pages...you already get the maximum speed through those with regular cable connections.
3 mbs is for hardcore downloaders 🙂

It's very useful when you've got to upload 15 MB of crap on a regular basis for websites ✅ and actually, I've got no idea what my broadband speed is...

S.S.....

To find out your actual connection speed just double click on the two wee TVs in your system tray and a box will open that will tell you on the first line what your connection speed is !

mine says 100.0 Mbps 😱

12 Mbps...nice and fast 😄

Damn JP! 😑

that cant be right is it? On 2wire it gives me the following 1325.5 Kbps
all I know is that when I download stuff around 12MB it takes less than a minute 😑

I dunno...but that's really flippin' fast if it is...

yeah well it costs me 60 bucks a month too LOL

Ours is something like $50 a month...and I'm so glad we finally got it, you have NO idea how hard it is to maintain a website on dialup 😖 (yes, I want to be a professional webdesigner ✅ )

ok different site says 1.2 megabits per second I have no idea what that means

actually follow this link and you get tons of tests and for some reason they dont all come out the same 😑

http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm

JP...... That's about right for cable !

I have to be happy with 576,000 bps as I cannot even get the 1Meg service because I am too far away from the exchange !

Wish I had fibre-optic cable too ! doh

One thing... with a restricted download the cost is only £17.99 pm for me.

im on DSL papa

I've got broadband cable ✅

If you are on DSL JP then you must have the 1 meg service that I am unable to get. I think that is just about as fast as you can go with copper wire.....( Oh unless you get one of those accelerator progs that compress the data-stream ).

I know one thing...even at half a meg I only took about four or five minutes to download the large part of the Windows 98 SE service pack that I needed.

I cannot image how long it would have taken with dialup....at 44bps

Lucky you SS....

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
mine says 100.0 Mbps 😱

I got that too. That's the maximum connection speed. It'll never go that fast. I'm not sure how it works

JP, it's saying 100 Mb/s because you've probably got your DSL "modem" plugged into your ethernet port, which is 10/100.

(I use the term "modem" loosely because, technically, cable and DSL do not use modems. The word "modem" is an acronym for "MOdulator - DEModulator. That means it changes the digital data into an analog signal (modulates it), transmists it over analog lines, then the modem on the other end changes the data back to digital (demodulates it). Since cable and DSL signals remain digital the entire time, the data is not modulated nor demodulated. Hence your device is not truly a modem. It's more like a router.)

The other speed you mentioned is your actual speed. It sounds like you've got a 1.5 up/256 down DSL connection.

Copper wire can definitely transmit faster than 1 Mb/s. I've got DSL, and I pay $59.95 / month for my 3Mb/s up/384 Kb/s down connection. And my DSL device is capable of transmitting at speeds up to 8 Mb/s. The good thing about DSL is that your bandwidth is ALL YOURS. It's not shared like cable. I always have 3 Mb/s, regardless of who else around me is online when I am.

And yes, I am a download fiend. 😉 I enjoy being able to download 1 megabyte every 3.5 seconds.

cornponious

Ok, i'm bragging again. 😄

my speed test.

cornponious

Originally posted by Papaumau

[b]Lucky you SS.... [/B]

Took me months of pestering my mother to get it...now I just need to get it on MY computer...😄

Originally posted by cornponious
That means it changes the digital data into an analog signal (modulates it), transmists it over analog lines, then the modem on the other end changes the data back to digital (demodulates it).

That's why phone jacks are called "modular" phone jacks.

cornponious

Originally posted by cornponious
my speed