good question! i am also looking for a tutorial on internet speeds that would explain things like:
1) my icon for lan connection says 100.mbps, but the ppp dialup icon says 10.mbps/what does that mean?
2) i use rainy’s rainmeter to show network activity amoung other things and it says things like net in: 1 to 9.0 kBps and net out: 0 - 160 Bps
3) also in rainmeter for Net in all and Net out all it usually sits about 12.2 GB and 12.1 GB repesctively. I have no idea what these rainmeters are trying to say!
Then in various download programs and in Opera transfer page you can see files downloading in this range:
3.9 - 6.0 kb/S
what does it all mean? is this what one should expect from broadband? I have been a 56K user for the past 3 years here in backwoods Nepal, and I so far I am not impressed with broadband….
jiggy, I live in India…here too broadband means speeds like 56k modem. The only advantage is that u get connectivity for 24 hrs (a few times it goes off). Another thing that sucks abt internet here is that there are download limits set…earlier it was 580-600 megs a month and I think they’ve raised it to 5 gigs a month now. US was so nice…100 K’s a sec on DSL and 600 K’s on cable and no limits too…
You live in Nepal and since Nepal is India’s neighbour I dont think it would be any different.
thanks rahul! so my speeds are in line with what i can expect then? one nice thing about this service is that there is no download limit like others in my area. how much do u pay? it’s bloody expensive here! more than 3000 IC a month!!! that’s almost my rent payment.
jigs
yup, those speeds are fine…before I went to USA I used to get 0.1 to 0.2 K’s a sec during the afternoon but it used to become 6-7 K’s a sec by night. Now I get 10 K’s a sec during the afternoon too…so things have certainly improved ..will be another 5 yrs time before speeds reach those of US standards (and by then in US those speeds would be considered slow). I pay about 8000 a yr. (~700 bucks a month).
just a quick question.
how to check at what speed the router connects to the internet?
since on the pc I could only see the network speed (100Mbps).
linc do u have this? i hate these type of products that force u to pay before u can see if it works, then they “test” your system from the web and always say it’s terrible. my internet connection is measured at 33K on this site, and i have asian broadband. Rahul, how do u rate there?
jigs
Communications 87.6 kilobits per second
Storage 10.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.6 minutes
Subjective rating Slow
Explain results
Info
Date & time Thursday, July 8, 9:37AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type ISDN or IDSL
Region Asia
Data size 605KB
Provider Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
I used to get faster than that in my uncle’s place in NY (about 600 K’s a sec..it once touched 1 meg a sec from microsoft’s website)....ne ways I dont care much…I’ll be back in NY in about a month’s time. I guess I’ve gotten spoilt now…cant live without those kind of speeds
just a quick question.
how to check at what speed the router connects to the internet?
since on the pc I could only see the network speed (100Mbps).
linc do u have this? i hate these type of products that force u to pay before u can see if it works, then they “test” your system from the web and always say it’s terrible. my internet connection is measured at 33K on this site, and i have asian broadband. Rahul, how do u rate there?
jigs
nah.. i only use it for the bandwidth test. i got 1385 kilobits per second on that site. not happy but im not complaining.
Hmmmm testing from my office, it says I’ve got less than 900k. Considering my connection tops out at 30 Mbps full-duplex (FDDI) and we’re never at more than 15% utilization downstream, I’d say this test isn’t entirely accurate. I’ve downloaded things from, for example Akamai, at almost 8 Mbps.
..will be another 5 yrs time before speeds reach those of US standards (and by then in US those speeds would be considered slow). I pay about 8000 a yr. (~700 bucks a month).
