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Hi guys,
I just got BT Infinity today and it's working well for me (touch wood).
My question relates to the speed of the service. When I do a speedtest at Speedtest.net it says my speed is "35.09 Mbps". However, when this is happening, I have a monitoring tool on my Mac and it says the inward speed is 4.0mb/s. I'm not sure how to interpret these results and would like some advice just!!
Thanks!
Gareth.
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The Mac is showing MegaBytes/sec and the speedtest shows MegaBits/sec.
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Ahh right, OK thanks.
So, is 4mb/s good for BT Infinity then?
Thanks!
Gareth
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If you look carefully on the Mac, you will the "B" is upper case. That is very important; 1B = 8b!
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If you look carefully on the Mac, you will the "B" is upper case. That is very important; 1B = 8b!
Hi there,
It's definitely MB/s I'm using iStat to measure the speed and it changes from KB/s to MB/s so everything is in uppercase.
But the 4mb/s is good though, right?
Gareth
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Right!
What is worth knowing is the IP Profile. That is slightly above the absolute maximum you could get for throughput.
http://speedtester.bt.com is the only thing that will tell you it.
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In reply to a post by Anonymous: If you look carefully on the Mac, you will the "B" is upper case. That is very important; 1B = 8b!
Hi there,
It's definitely MB/s I'm using iStat to measure the speed and it changes from KB/s to MB/s so everything is in uppercase.
But the 4mb/s is good though, right?
Gareth
Nahh, 4 milli bits per second is abysmal - a dead walrus could type faster than that.
Read wot thers have said - then you minght understand bits, Bytes, milli, Mega
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4MB/sec is not too bad, I get 4.6. Have you tried a BT speedtest as this will give your profile (mine is 38717/10000 - which is the max profile).
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Duh! I overlooked the "m" lower case in my haste 
@OP: The "M" in upper case on your Mac is also very important; 1M = 1 million while 1m = 1 thousand th part.
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Edited by XRaySpeX (Thu 28-Apr-11 01:07:45)
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while 1m = 1 millionth part. One thousandth part actually- short for milli- 
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