28-02-2013, 12:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-02-2013, 01:06 PM by Radio Fixer.)
I dont understand your film download speeds, oh! actually I do but I'm being polite.
You quoted 2.4 Mb/s but you ment 2.4MB/s. b is the generally accepted abbreviation for bits and B for bytes.
There are 8 bits in a byte but there are also housekeeping bits added, an overhead if you like. A crude rule of thumb is to multiply bytes by 10 to get bits. So your 2.4MB/s is approximately 24Mb/s which is a near enough to what the 'standard' Virgin pipe is (they quote 20Mb/s). I have that too and just checked it and mine is running at 19.1Mb so nothing to complain about there. Upload speed is about a tenth of download. Another often used abbreviation is to not to use the /s, its taken as read.
Virgin do have 50Mb and I believe 100Mb if you are prepared to pay for it. But of course you need the hardware to keep up with it (as you showed your old PC was resource limited) and would need to access vey fast servers for it to pay off.
Easy to use Speed Checker here: http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/
Gary
You quoted 2.4 Mb/s but you ment 2.4MB/s. b is the generally accepted abbreviation for bits and B for bytes.
There are 8 bits in a byte but there are also housekeeping bits added, an overhead if you like. A crude rule of thumb is to multiply bytes by 10 to get bits. So your 2.4MB/s is approximately 24Mb/s which is a near enough to what the 'standard' Virgin pipe is (they quote 20Mb/s). I have that too and just checked it and mine is running at 19.1Mb so nothing to complain about there. Upload speed is about a tenth of download. Another often used abbreviation is to not to use the /s, its taken as read.
Virgin do have 50Mb and I believe 100Mb if you are prepared to pay for it. But of course you need the hardware to keep up with it (as you showed your old PC was resource limited) and would need to access vey fast servers for it to pay off.
Easy to use Speed Checker here: http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/
Gary
