[ale] Comcast speeds

[Scott McDonald]

Arg - I worded that wrong... but the gist of what I meant is the same.
People (including me) tend to forget to multiple by 8 when looking at
throughput numbers.

It depends on if your display is showing you kB or Kb  - kiloBytes or
Kilobits - i.e. mrtg is using kB (kiloBytes) so to convert to Mb/s you
have to multiple first by 8 to get Kb (Kilobits) then divide that by
1024 to get Mb/s.

i.e. for me at home on long multiday downloads via comcast - mrtg
clocked my pipe at :
650kBytes/s  *  8bits/Byte = 5200Kbits/s
5200Kbits/s  /  1024Kbits/Mb = 5.07 Mb/s




On 4/3/07, Scott McDonald <twopeanuts at gmail.com> wrote:
> With MRTG graphing my gateway interface, the max I've hit over long
> times has been ~650kbit/s.  See:
> http://twopeanuts.com/mrtg/
>
> But - don't forget your bits to bytes conversions on the way to
> converting that to Mb/s...
>
> 690kbit/s = 5,520 Kbytes/sec = ~5.39 Mb/s
>
> Kinda hard to sue them for fraud (and win) when they are delivering
> more than promised :)
> -Scott
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>
> To: jeb at rev-x.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 12:11:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ale] Comcast speeds
> I just got 690kbit/s on my Comcast cable in Duluth.  That is
> one fourth of their promised 4mbit/s.
>
> It's time for a Class Action suit for fraud!
>