infinity puzzle

jamjar · 9 Oct 2013 at 11:17

Hi All I have a bit of a puzzle ...I have Infinity 2 and when i do a speed test i get 42 meg download speed but when i am downloading a file i,m getting 5 to 6 Mb/s how can this be right ? :confused:

bremen1874 · 9 Oct 2013 at 11:30

Are you just confusing megabits per second with megabytes per second?

paradigm · 9 Oct 2013 at 11:40

bremen1874 said:
Are you just confusing megabits per second with megabytes per second?

This ^^

42Mbit infinity translates to a 5.25MB/s download speed.

8bits = 1byte. 42/8= 5.25

Kol · 9 Oct 2013 at 11:40

42Mbit / 8 = 5.25MB/sec (I'm sure someone will be along with exact calculation)...

jamjar · 9 Oct 2013 at 13:08

ok thanks so it looks like my download speed is good ? thanks

paradigm · 9 Oct 2013 at 13:18

I'd say your download speed is pretty much maxing out your line (at least, to that particular resource).

neodude · 11 Oct 2013 at 10:52

MB = MegaByte
Mb = MegaBit

eddyhall · 11 Oct 2013 at 10:56

It's an easy mistake to make and not only BT do this, all ISPs advertise speed in Mbps (i.e. the higher number).

bremen1874 · 11 Oct 2013 at 11:19

Mbps is the standard way any network is described. If ISPs arbitrarily started using MBps there really would be confusion.

Gambisk · 11 Oct 2013 at 11:27

Used to confuse me too despite 4 years if Computer Science at Uni. I never looked to closely at the adverts but did wonder why my 30Mbps connection only ever saw 3MBps. Just never looked at the different 'B's.

ISPs may as well start using bps, if BT or Virgin rebranded thier connection with a 30,000 bps connection punters would flock to them, without realising

neodude · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:00

Gambisk said:
Used to confuse me too despite 4 years if Computer Science at Uni. I never looked to closely at the adverts but did wonder why my 30Mbps connection only ever saw 3MBps. Just never looked at the different 'B's.

ISPs may as well start using bps, if BT or Virgin rebranded thier connection with a 30,000 bps connection punters would flock to them, without realising

You REALLY didn't pay attention in that class dude.

30Mbps = 30,000,000 bps.

Gambisk · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:04

neodude said:
You REALLY didn't pay attention in that class dude.

30Mbps = 30,000,000 bps.

Doh, here's to a long and fulfilling career in software development :eek:

Edit: Looks like you didn't pay attention either its actually 300,000,000 bps

http://bit.ly/18Utjbf

neodude · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:17

Strange, when I Google it (which is what I did in the first place) I get 31,457,280.

bremen1874 · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:20

In a thread about the confusion between bits and bytes Gambisk has managed to get confused about the difference while trying to be clever. Oh the irony!

People seem to be missing the difference between Mbps and Mibps as well.

Gambisk · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:28

Haha wrong again, thank goodness I have no need to use this day to day.