Re: Telkom marketing at it again?
Rory <[email protected]>
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On 17 March 2011 11:33, Roland Giesler <[email protected]> wrote: > * What does kbps mean? > Kilobytes per second. This is the speed at which your line is > downloading the information from and uploading the information to the > internet. For instance, at 384kbps, a 3MB file, which is more or less > the size of your average music file, would probably take a little over > 30 second to download > > The problem, of course, is that the Hoi Polloi out there, have no idea > that it will actually take 7 minutes to download a 3MB file at > 386kbps, not "just over 30 seconds". 384Kbps = 48KB/s theoretical max download speed, ever, on that line. :) 3072KB == 3MB => 64 seconds to transfer, in an ideal world, assuming you got the full 384Kbps, which you won't. So how on _earth_ do they arrive at "a little over 30 second(s)"? Unless my maths is wrong. R. _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz