Techy question

In the bottom right hand corner I have a little icon of a computer with a flashing green screen connected to another one, and if you hover over it it tells you "21974055 bytes received 5925654 bytes sent @ 1088000 bps"

That last bit is bytes per second right, which is your broadband speed right? So can I translate that as to mean (roughly) 1.08Mbps?

(I'm near enough out in the sticks using an ancient pc before you ask, so I wouldn't be able to run any better than 2Mbps if I used more modern equipment.)

Posted By: DJ Ginga on September 16th 2009 at 14:24:37

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Techy question (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 14:24:37
- bits per second (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 16, 14:32:53
  - Errrrrr... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:22:35
    - Divide by 1024*1024 (that's what I meant by 1024 squared) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 16, 16:20:58
    - Be wary about trying to calculate your connection speed when getting numbers from Windows. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 15:26:17
      - OK thanks both of you (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:36:12
  - Ah thanks (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:16:27
- simplify the connection stats by (General Chat) - pants, Sep 16, 14:32:12
  - I want to be downloading Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC right? (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:31:48
    - You shouldn't need to download and install anything to do a speed test. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 15:42:20
    - nope, that's the advert banner. You need to wait for the flash screen to load up (General Chat) - pants, Sep 16, 15:38:14
      - Ah, did wondewr about the flash thing... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:54:38
- Ah no; I double-clicked the Dr Speedtouch icon next to it... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 14:30:45
  - kbps = kilobits per second, I think. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 14:32:33
- "bits" per second - a bit is one eighth of a byte. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 14:30:04
  - ty (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:17:03

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