Just move the decimal place three digits to the left and change kilo to mega

That's simple. I thought it was more complicated than that. The internet tells me "A Megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 Kilobytes." You don't just move the decimal point. Is it different with bits?

No but close enough for rock n roll.

That number is kilobytes too... bits don't enter into it

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That was driving me nuts, I couldn't think of the song I just knew that was a line from.

.38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night

As you were, people.

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Yay. Upgrade is finally here. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...bec32a4266.jpg

Honesdale, eh?

I'm heading up there on Tuesday.

Can you check and see what they're doing with my bytes?

Post your latest connection speed...
 

How am I doing?

Now this: once you get past 20mb you have enough for all the Netflix you want and PING starts to become more interesting for you.

PING is much more important in gaming, video over IP such as Skype, voice over IP such as all telephony.

By these standards Sic is the current record holda for bandwidth, but glatt is the record holda for PING at 10ms. That means the Internets are faster for him because his clicks reach the destination website much faster, results seem snappier and more responsive, and if he makes video or audio calls, the signal is clean and not full of glitches and jitter.

When I first got FIOS, my brother the programmer guy checked my ping to see if I could do some beta testing with his online gaming company. He was blown away by my number, as it was the fastest he had ever seen. I think it was an 8 or 9 then.

But I had no time for gaming, so it never happened.

Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?

And looking back through the thread, I see my employer has a fast connection with a 5ms ping. We've got like 500 VOIP phones here in this building.

I imagine a lot is just how close you physically are to a lot of the major switches of the entire Internets. I don't know exactly how the backbones route these days, but the whole schmear pretty much grew up around Vienna, and all of NoVA. It used to be that to get a packet from Philly to Pittsburgh you had to go through NoVA.

Here my lastest results

82 down
6 up

My latest results 4259.27 Mbps down.... (It doesnt say UP or if it does Im not sure where to look)

From here: http://www.ispgeeks.com/wild/modules...itialmeter.php

Scripts must be enabled!!

100 up and down.

Just learned that if you Google "speed test" you will get a speed test similar to speedtest.net but without all the flash and ads.

http://cellar.org/img/paying-for-75.jpg

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Since I don't have a static IP address, I guess it's ok that they publish it?

Also, we NETFLIX on two tv's at the same time, HD stream, with no troubles.

If you were streaming anything while taking the test, that might have affected it.

HD video is the hardest you'll ever push that connection, so unless you have any problems with it, like blocky video or pausing -- you're good to go!

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Nothing streaming, no one home but me.:|

I'm at 2.5mbps down and .5 up.
These seem low compared to the rest of you, but after 20 years at 30 kbps (that's K), I am in pig heaven.
It seems like 4259m (Dude111) would give you today's activity yesterday.

When I see a slow internet connection like that, I always think back to the old dial-up 56K connection and how that was the super duper fast connection of the day. I got my start on a 300 baud rate modem where you put the phone in the little cradle. It was my dad's Heathkit terminal he built to connect to the college mainframe.

I don't know the conversion. Maybe Google can help me, how many Mbps was 300 baud?

brb.....

This is confusing. It's the whole stupid MB is actually 1024 Bytes, not 1000 Bytes math always messes me up.


But I found a site that talks about the speed to send a 1M file over different services.

300 baud took 27,962 sec (or a week and most of a day) to send 1 MB.

My current service is 75 Mbps and while I can't find 75 Mbps at the site, I can find 100Mbps and take 75% of that. 75 Mbps will transfer a 1 MB file in 0.06 seconds.

My current speed is 466,033.3 times faster than the first speed I ever experienced.

BTW, a 56k modem could send a 1MB file in 144.7 seconds.

A 6.312 Mbps connection will send that file in 1.2 seconds, over a hundred times faster.

I begin to wonder how rural broadband could ever happen. Government intervention is out cuz GOP voters. Electric Coops could do it but that smells like socialism and they need permission to challenge monopoly. I guess this is just one more pressure to depopulate rural America.

Wireless. Dude you're in one of the white spots, don't miss out that there are so utterly few white spots. 99% of the rural south is up and running. Only mountains fuck up wireless, because physics.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/feat...map=4glte#maps

ETA the Verizon map claims it covers 98% of US population with 4G!

I will attempt to be enthusiastic about other people's wireless and other people's fiber optic while I can't consistently send a text...





... or load the Verizon map apparently.

You can get a quote for a permanent wired circuit, which might be too expensive to install, but maybe if you share it with neighbors?

Do you happen to know if there is a local box your phones are wired to? Wherever the installer went to complete your circuit.

Do any neighbors have cable TV? Can you get cable yourself? What happens if you put in your address here:

https://www.verizon.com/foryourhome/...abilitylq.aspx

This is the cable search result for the nearest town 5 miles away.
https://www.cabletv.com/pa/little-meadows

I forget, do you have a small dish on the house now?

We have one hanging from years ago. Back then they had hard limits on data along with latency issues but it could be that those issues have been addressed? If the fiber would eventually get extended out 5rontier's service would be good enough.

The latency issues will continue to exist... it may still be a better experience than you have now. Data limits, I think you may have to limit the number of movies you download per month. It says here some dish service is 50GB/month and HD movies are about 3GB/hour, so there is math involved.

Tried to download a searchable Mueller report from the NYT this am for full context... nope. 1.34 download and .42 upload

Ah well, healthier to get on my tree project.