[G4] Broadband Speed Liar's Poker

[James Asherman]

On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 06:24  PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> 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.
>
>

You bet. What is fishy is that the cnet test only showed half that 
speed.
Furthermore I got 4 Megabit speeds after my neighbors went to bed.
Caveat cable.

Jim