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On Thursday 19 October 2006 01:17, sent a missive stating:
> My dial up runs 46Kbits
> My 5 Mhz DSL runs 4.6Mbits
> My brand new 2.4 Mhz wireless averages less than 100K - varies from a low
> of 52K to a high of about 115K.
> If they can't improve the wireless performance it is going back.
Whoops...2.4Mhz band..my bad. Yeah, that would only be 2-3 times faster then
dial-up :)
> Regards,
>
> Ann-Marie Foster,
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Hudson" <>
> To: "Zed" <>
> Cc: <>; "A LiveAboardList"
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> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: lv-ab: RE: T&T: Internet access comparisons.
>
> > Also, those numbers below are misinterpeted. You're mixing up bites and
> > bits.
> >
> > Dial-up: 56Kbits (theoretical max; actual about 42Kbits) which equates to
> > about 3.5Kbytes actual download speed on a good day on a clear line.
> > You'll
> > probably see closer to 2.5Kbytes on most lines.
> >
> > DSL: 5Mbits which is about 300-400Kbytes of download speed. Depending on
> > the
> > provider that's also just the "burst" rate and they throttle it down
> > after a
> > few seconds to a slower speed for each request.
> >
> > Wireless: using trhe 2.4M then you'd be getting about 250Kbytes or so of
> > download speed on the high-end, but probably closer to the 200Kbytes
> > range
> >
> > Really, anything over about 50Kbytes (this equates to the old 768Kbits
> > DSL connections speeds) or so is plenty fast for email, surfing, etc...
> >
> > ie: the 2.4Mbit speed of the wireless should be plenty. Even the 59Kbyte
> > speed
> > will run circles around the 3Kbyte of dial-up.
> >
> > Yes, they (the cable / phone / wireless) guys make this confusing on
> > purpose :)
> >
> > Hope that helped.
> >
> > Henrik
>
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