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Cable Internet confusion...

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bobsaget

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Ok... I'm about to get 512k cable internet.

What is the upload and download speed of 512k internet?
About how long would it take to download a 10mb file?
Is $39.99 a month about the right price?

Thank you!
 
Depends on what kind of "k" that is.

Kilobits or Kilobytes?

If it's Kilobytes, your download speed will probably be a very high 512kilobytes per second. If it's 512kilobits, you're stuck with 64 kilobytes per second.

ISPs are deliberately vague to trick you into thinking your speeds will be high. Either that or their marketing people are too dumb to know the difference.

I've seen my service advertised as "1500 kilobytes per second!" Where it's actually 1.5mbits/s, meaning ~175kilobytes per second.

Bah.
 
thats not a very good price at all, i get 3.5mb++ for 45/month. just get a higher tier, unless you just want always on connection at the cheapest price.
 
Originally posted by fallsincluded
thats not a very good price at all, i get 3.5mb++ for 45/month.
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Same here. The average price for cable seems to be about $45/month for about a 3+ megabit connection (3mbit connection = about 375KiloBytes download speed)
 
The b after the k is small so it is kilobits. Like angry busdriver said your max theoretical d/l would be 64K per second.

Should take a little under 3 minutes for a 10mb file.

I get 3mbps from comcast for about $45-$50.

Is that company your only option?
 
What cable company. See if there is a better solution around where you live. 512k is not that good, but I guess it is better than dial up.
 
HAHAHAHA


Here in the Soviet Republic of Canuckstan the local cable provider has moved to 5-10Mbit cable.

Speeds realistically have been 6-700Kilobytes per second when I download off excellent servers.
 
My connection at my store is pretty swift. Ill need to benchmark it.

At home i have 128k cable. (i get from 10-20KB/sec)

Hey...The home one aint a bad deal for 20 bucks. Perfectly fine for web surfing and gaming at home.
 
More than likely that 512k number is the upload. These tend to be the cable packages that you'll probably see a lot of although they do vary from one provider to another. Usually with cable you can get a 300 KB/s download going under good conditions. Your upload on the other hand is probably going to be really bad.

download/upload (kilobits)
3000/128
3000/256
3000/512
 
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