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animatorsathish · 09-10-2007, 07:39

Hi,

I face some problem while accessing internet from my laptop. I am having broadband connection with 56kbps. I can able to access any website. But its very very slow. Download is at the rate of 4 or even below 2 kbps. But at the same time i have connected another machine (desktop) paralelly with the same connection which has the speed of more than 30kbps irrespective of the cable (one is connected thru' N/W cable & another one is thru' USB with external modem)

Is that due to sharing bw two machines? or anything need to be changed on Laptop?

I have given the specs.

Laptop: Compaq Presasrio - AMD 2.2GHZ, 120GB HDD, 1 GB RAM

pgo · 09-10-2007, 10:36

If you have a dialup modem - 56kbps (kilobits per second) - your max download speed will be 7Kbps (kilobytes per second).

8 bits in a byte, so: 56 / 8 = 7

sub · 09-10-2007, 11:03

Probably shouldn't admit this, but I have always wondered about that.
It never occurred to me that it was kilobits per second.

You are a clever sausage, pgo.

Hunch · 16-10-2007, 00:24

Technically, you're supposed to write Kbps (bits) and KBps (bytes) but no one ever does.

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animatorsathish Sathish babu Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chennai Posts: 18	Internet speed over Laptop Hi, I face some problem while accessing internet from my laptop. I am having broadband connection with 56kbps. I can able to access any website. But its very very slow. Download is at the rate of 4 or even below 2 kbps. But at the same time i have connected another machine (desktop) paralelly with the same connection which has the speed of more than 30kbps irrespective of the cable (one is connected thru' N/W cable & another one is thru' USB with external modem) Is that due to sharing bw two machines? or anything need to be changed on Laptop? I have given the specs. Laptop: Compaq Presasrio - AMD 2.2GHZ, 120GB HDD, 1 GB RAM

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09-10-2007, 10:36	#2 (permalink)
pgo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,340	If you have a dialup modem - 56kbps (kilobits per second) - your max download speed will be 7Kbps (kilobytes per second). 8 bits in a byte, so: 56 / 8 = 7

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Hunch Grumpy old man Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North Japan Posts: 1,695	Technically, you're supposed to write Kbps (bits) and KBps (bytes) but no one ever does.

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