My fingers got away from me and started typing their own thing... yes i am meaning bits not Bytes. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > On 10/28/2015 08:17 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > >> Thanks for the pointer. Of course, what I'd really like to know is what >> their actual performance is :-) When I was last with TWC, they promoted {10 >> MB down, 2 MB up} but I never got close to that: IIRC my best TWC home >> download ever was 1.92 MB/s, briefly, while on a direct wire connection to >> the cablemodem. And that was on a laptop that regularly did 20 MB/s >> downloads on my academic network. >> > I was just reading this and I'm wondering if you are mixing your acronyms. > You said that they promoted 10 MB down and 2 MB up. I'm guessing that you > meant to use 10 Mb (Megabit) instead of 10 MB (MegaByte) because a > 10MegaByte connection would be close 100MegaBit connection which aren't > exactly cheap. > Then you said you get 1.92 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) which seems like > you were actually getting more than you were paying for since a 10 > Megabits/second connection would max out at 1.28 MegaBytes/second under > perfect circumstances which you will almost certainly not have. 20 > MegaBytes/Second seems a little high but not unreasonable for a good > academic network especially if they are running a cache. > > Anyway, I just saw some potential ambiguity with you acronyms thought you > might want to clarify....or just say shutup Brian, you knew what I meant :) > > Brian Cluff > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen