itchy_trigger 0 Posted August 10, 2002 Hi I just got DSL on my home, but so far i'm not too impressed with the speeds. My connection is supposed to be 256K Downstream/ 128K Upstream. Â What downloads speeds should I be expecting with this kind of connection?? Also what pings on games Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
munger 25 Posted August 10, 2002 30-40k per second download from a decent site. Should get pings of under 40 on a good, fairly local game server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kegetys 2 Posted August 10, 2002 Theoretical maximum for its download speed is 256Kb/s (kilobits per second), which is 32KB/s (kilobytes per second, 256/8=32). From that you usually lose a few KB's for headers, routing info, etc. that goes there with the actual data you are downloading. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HellToupee 0 Posted August 10, 2002 all depends on isp and game server for ping i get 90 but my isp is down in dunedin the other side of my country im in the north en its in the south but people with the same speed connection ive seen with a 30ms ping which even went down to 20 for a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kep Kelagin 1 Posted August 11, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (itchy_trigger @ Aug. 11 2002,01:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My connection is supposed to be 256K Upstream/ 128K Downstream. Â <span id='postcolor'> Are u sure that your upstream speed is higher then downloading speed ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HellToupee 0 Posted August 11, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kep Kelagin @ Aug. 11 2002,14:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (itchy_trigger @ Aug. 11 2002,01:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My connection is supposed to be 256K Upstream/ 128K Downstream.  <span id='postcolor'> Are u sure that your upstream speed is higher then downloading speed  ?<span id='postcolor'> ive ilther got 128 up 256 down or 256/256 up down cant rember i think max up is 128 for dsl. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HellToupee 0 Posted August 11, 2002 ur've also got to rember the americans stuffed up the metric system its like 1024bytes = 1 kb. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
itchy_trigger 0 Posted August 11, 2002 OOPS My mistake : p 256 Downstream 128 Upstream Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kegetys 2 Posted August 11, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (HellToupee @ Aug. 11 2002,03:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">6--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kep Kelagin @ Aug. 11 2002,146)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (itchy_trigger @ Aug. 11 2002,01:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My connection is supposed to be 256K Upstream/ 128K Downstream.  <span id='postcolor'> Are u sure that your upstream speed is higher then downloading speed  ?<span id='postcolor'> ive ilther got 128 up 256 down or 256/256 up down cant rember i think max up is 128 for dsl.<span id='postcolor'> DSL speeds go up as high as 26 Mb/s for both down and upstream (using VDSL) </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ur've also got to rember the americans stuffed up the metric system its like 1024bytes = 1 kb. <span id='postcolor'> Ermh... metric system or americans messing up anything doesnt really have anything to do with the fact that 1024bytes is 1 kilobyte (KB, not kb. kb would be kilobit, though a capital K should be used I think). Its just the way binary calculations etc. work. 1 kilo (officially named kibi) is 1024 in the "computer world" while it normally is 1000, as mega (mebi officially) is 1024 kilos and giga (gibi officially) is 1024 megas. 1 byte (B) is 8 bits (b) which make a big difference, as people usually think "256 kbs" means 256 kilobytes per second, it really means 256 kilobits per second which needs to be divided with 8 to get kilobytes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HellToupee 0 Posted August 11, 2002 i think they should really simplfy the system so that 1000bytes = 1Kb (did i get it right) and dump this carry bits stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 11, 2002 I am just puzzled what this has to do with OFP... Moving to Offtopic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
