Modem speed question

Cockney · June 23, 2004 11:54AM

Help...My new DSL and wireless lan is running at 295 KBPS...Is that good?

stujoe · June 23, 2004 11:56AM

Depends upon the plan you have I suppose. I usually am around 1.2 MBPS

Cockney · June 23, 2004 11:57AM

I have SBC, but my question was more like is that enougth to be able to serve the web without hangups?

Sequitur · June 23, 2004 11:57AM

Not good if that's your download speed, marginal if it's your upload speed.

Cockney · June 23, 2004 12:00PM

Just ran a other test it was 1.1 megabits per second..Thanks

XpipedreamR · June 23, 2004 12:03PM

I'm not even going to say it

DominusDeus · June 23, 2004 12:03PM

<< <i>Help...My new DSL and wireless lan is running at 295 KBPS...Is that good? >>

Depends if you know the difference between bits and bytes. A capital "B" is bytes, while a lowercase "b" is bits. If you Do mean 295 kiloBYTES per second, then you're running at 2.328 megaBITS per second.

If you meant 295 kiloBITS per second (slow... So wireless won't be this), you're running at 36.875 kiloBYTES per second.

Currently, I'm connected to charter at 2 megabit (256 kBps) downstream, and 128 kilobit (16 kBps) upstream. My home lan is through a 10/100 router, so I get a nice 100 megabit (12.5 megaBYTES per second) connection between both of my PCs.

Cockney · June 23, 2004 12:05PM

Thanks Dominus, now I am no longer confused

Xpipe............Blow me

robertpr · June 23, 2004 12:29PM

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