Internet Speed Test

I tested the Broadband speed in the site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ it shows the results(uploading speed,Downloading speed)In KBPS .But i want to check out it in MBPS where can i test that help me please??

Edited by piller1 (Tue 29-Sep-09 09:23:44)

This site!
Results are in both Kbps and Mbps http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

In reply to a post by piller1:

I tested the Broadband speed in the site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ it shows the results(uploading speed,Downloading speed)In KBPS .But i want to check out it in MBPS where can i test that help me please??

Eh? Just divide by 1,000!

Maybe I've misunderstood your question but it seems equivalent to:

"This website measures distances in metres, I want one that measures in kilometres".

Which is verging on nonsensical

OTOH if you've found a site measuring in kiloBYTES per second (KBps) and want one that measures in megaBITS per second (Mbps) then divide by 1,000 and multiply by 8 (there's 8 bits in a byte). It's still telling you the same thing but I agree that bytes->bits is a more irritating conversion

In reply to a post by Andrue:

Eh? Just divide by 1,000!

Or is it 1024 !

Comms has always used K=1000 (eg. a 33.6K modem was really 33,600bps) - its use predates the use of computers to transmit data.

Where it gets slightly confusing (for the uninitiated, at least) is we routinely use K=1024 to refer to the *amount* of data transferred.

Edited by TonyHoyle (Tue 29-Sep-09 13:12:52)

I've read that. Looking at TBB's speedtester it looks like they've gone for 1024 though...

As mentioned elsewhere kilo = thousand, mega = million. How many thousand in a million? Yep 1,000, so divide the kbps figure by 1,000 and you're there.

That speed test is a pile of steaming inaccurate pap though, I just measured my service there at just over 5Mbps then elsewhere at nearly 50.

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In reply to a post by Andrue:

Eh? Just divide by 1,000!

Or is it 1024 !

1,000. Always 1,000

That old '1,024 is nearly 1,000' nonsense was never officially recognised. Speaking personally I stopped using it many years ago. There is an alternate, software specific, set of binary prefixes but hardly anyone uses them. They are the same as the SI ones but with an 'i' eg;

1kiB=1.024kB

In reply to a post by b4dger:

I've read that. Looking at TBB's speedtester it looks like they've gone for 1024 though...

Really? That's a bit odd. The TBB team are well aware of SI units because it's cropped up in the past. OTOH in practice it is tricky when you're presenting data to the user. So many people still remember the old 'powers of two' units :-/

When you're talking about line speeds then power of two has never been used, so there's nothing to remember. The ambiguty only comes up with hard disk sizes (thanks, HD manufacturers!) and consequently things like file sizes (depends on the OS you're using which gets used). Of course memory is always described in 1024 units...

If they've used 1024 for a speed tester that's slightly odd...