Another thing to consider is the bandwidth of every computer between your machine and the destination machine. Obviously you're only going to get a download as fast as the slowest computer between you and the remote system. In other words, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Even if you're downloading from a well-known, fast site, if for some stupid reason some server in the middle was running off a 14.4 modem, your download will proceed at 14.4 speed or less, no matter how fast your connection or that of the remote site is. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:58 PM Subject: Re: speed question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks. I was always under the impression that KbpS and Kb/S were both > interchangeable, and stood for Kilobytes per second. > > I notice that lynx the cat reports download speeds in Kb/s, while the > statistics page of my ADSL modem reports the speed in KbpS. Knowing > that they're both different, and that one is Kilobits, while the other > is Kilobytes, 1360 KbPs is a lot closer to 1536 KbpS. Doing some > calculations shows me that I should be getting 192 Kb/S max, but I > suppose I should take into account the bandwidth of other machines, > and the latency of the net in general. > > Greg > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:47:39PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > > I think you may need to sort out acronyms. I believe kbps typically > > means killobits per second, whereas kb/s typically means kilobytes per > > second. There are 8 kilobits in a kilobyte, therefore 170 kb/s = 1360 > > kbps. Hopefully I am not just talking out my ass and I am remembering > > this stuff correctly. > > > > HTH > > > > -- > > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > !DSPAM:40d4cb5d18271590836448! > > > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA1NM77s9z/XlyUyARAnsVAKCG6bCoHJogTt9WNO+DCh3uRo/ICwCfRT99 > Qdan1kTdoY0O9jbEokOeSm8= > =IJk2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
