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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:23 pm
by Macil
I remember when i thought a 500k download was huge... HA! Now 50megabytes is medium size!
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:15 pm
by cccp_leha
Agent ME wrote:I remember when i thought a 500k download was huge... HA! Now 50megabytes is medium size!
Tell him Enjay!
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:40 pm
by Macil
What? Does he have T3 cable or something (I would bow down to you and kiss your feet and be your servant for 15 eternities if u give me it)?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:25 pm
by Enjay
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:34 am
by Bio Hazard
you know, i dont really notice a difference between cable and T1...
at home on my cable modem i get ~580KB/s (thats what it says) and at work on the T1 i get ~630KB/s so its really not that much faster.
the best places to check your connection is to download something from apple.com or microsoft.com
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:06 am
by HotWax
580KB/sec is a very good cable connection. 630KB/sec is a T1 connection being shared by an office full of computers!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:13 am
by Enjay
Bio Hazard wrote:
580KB/s
630KB/s
Checks current connection speed...
31.2 Kbps
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:02 am
by Lexus Alyus
I'd apreciate it if MasterOfDeath didn't do that! I am being sereouse there to.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:47 am
by MasterOFDeath
Yeah sorry about that. Was a joke. For those of you who don't know, as a joke I private messaged him 3 times with just a bunch of crap in the messages. It was actually only supposed to be one but I accedentaly kept on hitting the "reply" button when I didnt mean to. Now, lets put that behind us. On my old computer I was usuing not long ago I had a 38.8 I think. On this one I have a 56k, but it only will connect at 45,333. And my isp being 2 towns away and my phone lines being as screwed up as they are helps.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:12 am
by HotWax
I don't remember what the actual maximum speed is for a "56k" modem, but as I recall it's not actually 56,xxx baud, so you may very well be getting the maximum speed.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:12 am
by Risen
I played modem doom on my 14.4 and I LIKED IT!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:49 am
by MasterOFDeath
HotWax wrote:I don't remember what the actual maximum speed is for a "56k" modem, but as I recall it's not actually 56,xxx baud, so you may very well be getting the maximum speed.
The "wonderful" life of a 56ker!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:41 am
by QBasicer
That's 56 kilo bits per second...
56kbp x 1000 (kilo = thousand) = 56000
56000 bps / 1024 = 54.6875 kBps.
That doesn't seem right, oh well. I know that a modem can never really get full speed, because of noise and resistance on the lines.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:51 am
by HotWax
Uhhhh, your reasoning is flawed, charris. I didn't say a thing about kbps or anything else. Connection speed is not measured in kilobits, it's measured in baud itself. Given your reasoning, these would be the maximum connect speeds of other modems:
14.4: 14,745.6 (Actual maximum: 14,400)
28.8: 29,491.2 (Actual maximum: 28,800)
33.6: 34,406.4 (Actual maximum: 33,600)
56.0: 57,344 (Actual maximum: ? -- NOT 56,000)
56k doesn't mean 56 kilobits per second, it means 56 kilobauds per second. A baud is a bit-per-second, but unlike a
kilobit, which is 1024 bits, a
kilobaud is 1000 bits per second.
[EDIT]Interestingly, a little research into the subject yields
this page, which declares that the lower connection speed of 56k modems isn't a hardware limitation, but a legal one:
The FCC in the United States has a regulation that data speeds over telephone lines cannot exceed 53K. Until that law is changed the modems are artificially capped at that speed.
It also states that 56k modems can download at 56k, but can only upload at 33.6k, which sounds about right to me.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:06 pm
by QBasicer
Actually, kilo is the greek prefix for one thousand, but now they've used that as 2's complement for 1000, 1024.
The french (the people that made metric), decided that kibi is the new kilo, because people don't understand kilo as 1000 anymore.
