Ah no; I double-clicked the Dr Speedtouch icon next to it...

...and that says 1.088 kbps downstream (is that info heading my way?) and 256kbps upstream (wow!).

So is kilobytes per second less than megabytes per second?

And to think I tried learning all this s**t with f**king CompuTeach many moons ago! Who the f**k was I kidding? Myself, obviously, but not the bank manager.

Posted By: DJ Ginga on September 16th 2009 at 14:30:45

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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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