"John Hasler" <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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David J Taylor writes:
But in the UK from Virgin Media I have 30 Mb/s down, 1 Mb/s up. I
have been promised an upload speed increase about 18 months ago to 2
Mb/s up, which is more sensible...
Such a very high cable download speed is a peak burst speeds on a shared
medium. Your sustained performance is not likely to be more than a
fraction of it.
Speed tests from a number of sites show 30 Mb/s, and that's over several
seconds. I downloaded the Windows-8 64-bit ISO recently, and the
3,583,707,136 bytes took 48 minutes, 24 seconds, which I make about 7.4
Mb/s, and the 32-bit ISO was 2,711,396,352 bytes in 27 minutes, so about
13.4 Mb/s. That was without any download accelerator (no multiple
connections).
Not ideal, but I prefer cable to ADSL.
You'd get less jitter with DSL.
--
John Hasler
DSL or ADSL? But I haven't checked the jitter on the cable modem link for
a long time, since I installed the GPS receivers.
Thanks, John.
Cheers,
David
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