My cable broadband service is supposedly 10Mb, but the ISP's own website tells me that I can expect upload speeds of up to 384 kbps - that's not ten meg! What's the deal?
2006-12-18 04:27:27 · 9 answers · asked by bonshui 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
the 10Mb is referring to your download speed...most internet connections for home use are asymmetrical which means you can't upload at the same rate that you download. As far as 10Mb and 10 MB...yes the capital b makes a huge difference. The lowercase b is megabits where as the capital is megabytes. There are 8 bits in a byte...so you can see where the difference is 8 fold.
2006-12-18 04:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by Jordan Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 10MB (or 10 Mbit) connection means you can move, at peak, 10 Millions bits of data a second. The max speed, intheory here is thefore about 1 Megabyte a second.
Now, in the ideal world, with networking protocols, collisions, and overhead, you'll be lucking you get 60% of this speed.
Even then, windows is not very efficient as it slows down the connection the higher the ping response. In web traffic, downloads, etc, you'll do good to make 3 or 4 megabytes a second.. Which is still really fast.
Put this another way, a 10 mbit connections is the same as about 7 T-1 connections, or about 178 times faster then a dialup modem.
2006-12-18 04:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by shadowmastertx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you can see there are lots of possible views. Some time ago, when connections were rarely above 500 kbps and monthly charge was over 29.99 for that connection, there were some who kept their PCs running 24x7 and using file sharing were literally passing tens of GB a month. Later on, some ISPs charged a bit more and set no limits (eg Zen, for their 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps connections). However, most UK ISPs decided to have limits, or a "Fair Use Policy" (FUP) because when speeds went higher, there was the chance that some would (ab)use the connection and keep it running 24x7 but now able to download at least 10 times the quantity of data as was possible 5/7 years ago. You may find that your ISP slows down your connection, (so it stays active, but much below full speed) or simply stops traffic (unless you pay a per GB fee for extra data). When UK Online (part of Easynet group, before it was all sold to Sky) was first offering ADSL with their own equipment in exchanges, they set an upper limit of 500 GB a month (but now I expect it is a lot lower). If you have 'deep pockets' you can pay for a business account at about 80 pounds a month and have a truly unlimited account. Some might have found they don't get any complaints from their ISP for months, but if the company changes its views on what is economic, the heaviest users might get a shock at any time, and be asked to leave. One ISP used to have three or four different accounts with increasing fees and increasing allowances. The top one was called "unlimited" but they quickly did a U-turn and set a monthly data transfer limit when DSL Max became available... with an "up to 8 Mbps" connection, the amount of data could be massive each month (and without any limits the costs for the ISP could get very high if a large - or even small - proportion of users were "excessive"). As mentioned, if you have "deep pockets" you might be OK... 80 pounds a month seems pretty high to me though. I've not seen any mention of limits on the Claranet off-peak account (cannot be used from 0800 to 1800 Mon-Fri but that's not a prooblem for those wanting to transfer lots of data all night and over weekends, too).
2016-05-23 04:33:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is common, your download will be 10 MB and you upload will be 384 kbs. Download is more often needed as you view websites, look at files that were sent to you and perhaps download music.
The reason they cap your upload is because your ISP does not want everyone running servers from their homes. You would only be uploading info if you were part of a peer to peer file sharing group, like Kaza or eDonkey. Your download will be affected by uploading information at the same time, most of the time depending on file sizes.
If you want to check your download speed to www.2wire.com they have a pretty good bandwidth meter or just do a google search for bandwidth meter.
2006-12-18 04:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by mybestemail69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means they claim 10 mbps download speeds and 384 kbps upload speeds, dont count on the ten megs tho....you will be lucky to download at 3 to 5 mbps. ISPs have a tendancy to advertise speeds that can be possible only in ideal conditions!
2006-12-18 04:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Broadband is designed for getting data TO you and not FROM you so broadband speeds are commonly listed at their "download" rates. You should be getting at or close to 10mb for that, or better! Upload rates are usually quite a bit slower and probably limited mostly by your own hardware. A 384kbps upload rate is not that bad!
2006-12-18 04:38:24 · answer #6 · answered by Whitty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10mb is download
Upload is usually less (unless you pay extra!)
Download of 1.5Mb (upload 128k) used to be fast! I'm finally at 3Mb down/256k up!
With cable broadband, expect even more fun. As subscribers in your area increase, your service will get slower and slower! Cable is a shared service.
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2006-12-18 04:30:15 · answer #7 · answered by John H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
10mb Broadband
2016-12-15 07:29:51 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
over hype by the isp, very rarely will you het 5mb or higher, and all depends on location from exchange as well.
most likely you'll get 1 or 2mb
2006-12-18 04:34:46 · answer #9 · answered by great one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋