10meg and the file transfer rate

[TIDDER]

I've been upgraded to 10meg and the speed test is good but i can only get a file transfer rate of 1.2meg max i thot you would get a better rate


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/92.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Horace]

Try a download manager like FDM to increase the number of connections. Some sites won't be able to max your bandwidth on a single connection.

[psyfur]

I've been upgraded to 10meg and the speed test is good but i can only get a file transfer rate of 1.2meg max i thot you would get a better rate


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/92.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

I get confused between megs and mbs whatever, but on a 10meg line downloading at 1.2 megs/s is top speed!

[punky]

I've been upgraded to 10meg and the speed test is good but i can only get a file transfer rate of 1.2meg max i thot you would get a better rate


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/92.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

You aren't confusing megabits and megabytes are you? Connections are measured in megabits and transfers are measured in megabytes.

Your connection is 10 megabits. Convert that to megabytes (divide it by 8, as there are 8 bits in a byte) and you get 1.25 megabytes a second absolute theorectical maximum (you'll never get that as there are some overheads)

So when you say you're getting 1.2 meg, do you mean transfer (megabytes) or connection (megabits which is 153.6 k/s transfer)

[HowardCanning]

mB or MB - Megabytes

Mb or mb - megabits

[Kymmy]

mB or MB - Megabytes

Mb or mb - megabits

Nope as mB would be millibytes and mb would be millibits :p:

A capital M is the symbol for Mega..

[HowardCanning]

No such thing as a millibyte! Perhaps you're thinking of mebibits/bytes? MiB, which is the same really as Mb/MB

[TIDDER]

ok yes i was confusing megabits and megabytes
i get top speed with this download
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
i get 1.2 MB \sec
thanks for making that clear to me