What the heck have they been using the bandwidth for?

[Grodus]

The actual forget? And no, I did a speedtest, and I get 10.5 Mb/s as a download rate.

I swear to god, between my land lady and my parents, they're always loving up the internet. I have no idea why my parents couldn't bother to buy a router so we don't have to use her stuff internet.


I have feeling my landlady is behind this, because my dad is at work and my mom is reading a book.

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[Grodus]

Holy crap, I'm suprised nobody's posted on this yet.

[rambo1220]

Holy forget, I'm suprised nobody's posted on this yet.

Because we don't care

Otherwise, sorry for me sounding harsh. Not trying to be. Also, it might be your Land Lady. Try convincing her into getting better internet or something.

[PowerDag]

Because we don't care

Watch yourself.

[Grodus]

Because we don't care

Otherwise, sorry for me sounding harsh. Not trying to be. Also, it might be your Land Lady. Try convincing her into getting better internet or something.

>10

Hah, yeah, that'll be easy. Despite the fact that I'm ten and she'll probably think I don't know what I'm talking about.

[rambo1220]

Watch yourself.

I was for yer infermeten

I also am wondering why his internet speed is so stuffty.

[PowerDag]

Only applies to drama rules

Read the general discussion rules, then the drama rules

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[Lunatic]

At first I was like, "wtf is this dude complaining about? 936kb/s is fine."

Then I lol'd.

[Sami2ss]

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nope.

plenty have been banned outside of drama.

[Orion]

nope.

plenty have been banned outside of drama.

this

just because in off topic only it says no spam doesn't mean i can spam every other board.

[T3HZ3N0N]

welcome to improper use of data units 101

speedtest.net does it in MEGABITS. also known as mb/s which is the same as MEGABYTES, but the sizes are different.

10 MEGABITS is about 1 MEGABYTE.

1 METABYTE INTERNET SPEED - EVERYTHING YOUR COMPUTER IS USING INTERNET FOR BESIDES WHAT YOU'RE DOWNLOADING =900bytes/s

they are doing nothing, you're just using the wrong data units
also i hope you know the more people on the internet the lower the speed, and that internet providers purposefully send extra bandwidth to the speedtest sites so it seems like its downloading a lot faster

[dkamm65]

Only applies to drama rules

No it doesn't. It applies everywhere.

10 MEGABITS is about 1 MEGABYTE.

Wrong.

8 bits = 1 byte

[Kalphiter]

2.95 mbytes * 8 = 23.6 mbits

[dkamm65]

2.95 mbytes * 8 = 23.6 mbits

2.95 MB is the size of the file. The speed is 973 Bp/s.

[Lunatic]

welcome to improper use of data units 101

sorry to butt in here, but you're loving handicapped.

OP is downloading at 973 bytes a second.

973 bytes < 1 kilobyte
973 bytes = 0.000927925 megabytes

There are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.

At OP's posted speed, if constant, it would take 1,103,538 seconds to download 1 gigabyte. That is almost 13 days.



Rarely do I see anyone use bit measurements instead of bytes. The main purpose of this is to make numbers look bigger than they are.

For instance, a cable company providing downstream speeds of 250 kilobytes a second (as most people would know it), could say they have "2000kb for $10/month". This would make the unwitting user think: "omg, 2 megabytes downspeed for 10 bucks!" only to get 1/8th that.