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| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on June 26, 2010, 12:01:57 AM ---Xfinity claims to have 50mbps downloads, my the most I've ever gotten was 5mbps. --- End quote --- There's a difference between Mb/s and MB/s. If you get 50Mb/s, your download speed should max at 6.25MB/s, if the server you're downloading from has enough upload to handle that. --- Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on June 26, 2010, 12:03:52 AM ---Either megabytes per second or megabits per second. I have no idea what the difference is between the two. --- End quote --- 8 bits = 1 byte |
| Snaffle J. Bean:
--- Quote from: dkamm65 on June 26, 2010, 12:04:05 AM ---There's a difference between Mb/s and MB/s. If you get 50Mb/s, your download speed should max at 6.25MB/s, if the server you're downloading from has enough upload to handle that. --- End quote --- Well, the most I've ever gotten was 5/Mbps in steam, so it wouldn't matter if I switched over to something that was 20/Mbps then, right? |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on June 26, 2010, 12:09:58 AM ---Well, the most I've ever gotten was 5/Mbps in steam, so it wouldn't matter if I switched over to something that was 20/Mbps then, right? --- End quote --- b=bit B=byte I think you mean the most you've seen was 5MB/s. (uppercase B) If you're paying for 50Mb/s (lowercase b), you were getting just a bit less than your max. So if you switched to 20Mb/s, you would lose more than half of your speed. |
| Snaffle J. Bean:
--- Quote from: dkamm65 on June 26, 2010, 12:15:41 AM ---b=bit B=byte I think you mean the most you've seen was 5MB/s. (uppercase B) If you're paying for 50Mb/s (lowercase b), you were getting just a bit less than your max. So if you switched to 20Mb/s, you would lose more than half of your speed. --- End quote --- Oh, well stuff. I just checked steam and it displays MB/ps. I guess we're staying with xfinity :| |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on June 26, 2010, 12:18:46 AM ---Oh, well stuff. I just checked steam and it displays MB/ps. I guess we're staying with xfinity :| --- End quote --- Yeah, you should be very happy with 5MB/s. |
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