"... over the last 24 hours that I'm getting just 2 kbps". Perhaps
there's a matter of interpretation here. If all I did in the last 24
hours was to download a single 22 MB file, regardless of how long it
took to download the file the average data transfer speed over 24 hours
is 2 kbps.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/20/2011 10:26 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I appreciate Ken's long dissertation about wireless and internet overload.
>
> Well, there is interesting fallout over the ATT/TMobile thing this
> morning, but that's another story. Let's just say that the game
> playing is in full-force.
>
>
>> Sometimes these days I am on ASDL (acronym spelling) broadband and it
>> claims to deliver 100Mbits / sec. My old Opera browsers, which I use quite a
>> lot and which report actual download speeds, have told me over the last 24
>> hours that I'm getting just 2 kbps.
>
> I really doubt that your ADSL connection is 100Mbps. Your LAN
> connection from your computer to the modem is 100Mbps (or less if you
> use wireless), but your access circuit to the provider is probably no
> higher than 10Mbps. If you are getting just 2Kbps, then something is
> broken. That's just not right.
>
> AG
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