[G4] Broadband Speed Liar's Poker

[John Baltutis]

On 12/29/03, James Asherman <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 11:57  PM, R. Sigismonti wrote:
>
>> Mine measured 2146 kbps.  Speed, that is.
>>>> http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
>
> While this one says 2.4 megabits per second
> with a 1Mb file download tme of 3.5 seconds
> Something is fishy.

> I know I get the k's and the M's and the capitalls mixed up.
>

Well, let's see. 1 Mb (file size in bytes) = 1 Mbyte = 8 Mbits. Divide that
by 3.5 seconds = 2.286 Mbits/sec. Seems to be in the ballpark.