In reply to a post by soziblewuup:

as a university student intent on avoiding maths for the rest of his life aha.

Impossible! Maths is in everything.

It shocks me to hear today that a uni student would even want to.

And it's not even maths but plain arithmetic.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by soziblewuup:

as a university student intent on avoiding maths for the rest of his life aha.

Impossible! Maths is in everything.

It shocks me to hear today that a uni student would even want to.

And it's not even maths but plain arithmetic.

Haha I avoid it at every calling; it's not the fact i don't want to do it, more so that it physically hurts my head. I know i can ace a good old piece of critical analysis, but ask me to do simple arithmetic, and i'm lost.

Edited by deleted (Mon 23-Jul-12 21:38:12)

On a Connection Speed of 2 Mb/s you are getting a throughput of 180 KB/s = 1.44 Mb/s, i.e. 72% of Sync Speed cuz there overheads on top of the actual data carried. On a pure speedtest (i.e. not IE ) you can expect about 83.5% of Sync = 1670 Kb/s = 209 KB/s.

This makes more sense

So when a download on an 80 meg fttc connection displays at 8 Mb/s (and it's using 80% of the 100 meg Ethernet card). Is that being mis reported technically by the browser?

By the logic that a 2 meg connection is written as 2 Mb/s and 80 meg one is written at 80 Mb/s

Then why do browsers show 8 Mb/s during downloads on the 80 meg connection. Surely by this logic the browser should be displaying 80 Mb/s

This is why I said an 8 meg connection is 0.8 Mb/s as a browser would report that during a download. Not 8 Mb/s

I'm taking away from the thread & the ops question so I'll probably read around on this

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Edited by deleted (Mon 23-Jul-12 21:43:42)

Oh dear! You still don't get it.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Then why do browsers show 8 Mb/s during downloads on the 80 meg connection.

The browser doesn't show "8 Mb/s"; it shows "8 MB/s".

The capital "B" is very important and makes a factor of 8 different in what you are quoting..

You need care, care, care!

Try a test download with the ttbmeter if you want - I just did a 10MB File and the speed was 1.291MB/sec or in other terms 10.324Mbps

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Oh dear! You still don't get it.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Then why do browsers show 8 Mb/s during downloads on the 80 meg connection.

The browser doesn't show "8 Mb/s"; it shows "8 MB/s".

The capital "B" is very important and makes a factor of 8 different in what you are quoting..

You need care, care, care!

I have an old version of download accelerator pro and it's reporting it wrong

It shows it as Mb not MB. After I wrote my post I thought that the capital B was probably the difference

The actual browser is reporting it correctly

I'll try to bear this in mind (& improve it) but hopefully people get an understanding of what I was getting at

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

I'll try to bear this in mind (& improve it) but hopefully people get an understanding of what I was getting at

Please do! it gets rather confusing to understand, particularly when a post quotes both bit speeds and Byte speeds.

Thanks for explaining it to me anyway

Always learning