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 <
brian@snaptek.com> 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
>
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