Except for the 500 Mbit service just mentioned by CH. I'm not aware of
any such service available to me at least.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/21/2011 8:59 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 100 Mbit Ethernet cards have been around for very many years. Even if
> your computer is 6 or 8 or maybe even 10 years old it likely has a 100
> Mbit card in it. 1 Gbit Ethernet cards have been around for several
> years as well. Those are only useful to you in local area nets inside
> your house. There's no outside cable or other service that gives you
> data faster than what can be handled by a 100 Mbit card.
>
> For the computer itself once the data comes off the card and onto the
> I/O bus 1 Gbit is child's play.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/21/2011 5:52 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> To what extent do upload and download speeds depend upon the specifications
>> of the computer itself independent of the upload and download speed
>> capabilities of one's ISP ?
>>
>>
>>
>> jh
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "C.H.Ling"<ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion"<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Strike one up for the underground protest
>>
>>
>>> To get a better picture of your internet connection speed, the following
>>> test site may help:
>>>
>>> http://www.speedtest.net/
>>>
>>> I just got a result of 66.45/40.55Mbps of download/upload speed.
>>>
>>> C.H.Ling
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chuck Norcutt"<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>> "... over the last 24 hours that I'm getting just 2 kbps". Perhaps
>>>> there's a matter of interpretation here. If all I did in the last 24
>>>> hours was to download a single 22 MB file, regardless of how long it
>>>> took to download the file the average data transfer speed over 24 hours
>>>> is 2 kbps.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/20/2011 10:26 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>>>> I appreciate Ken's long dissertation about wireless and internet
>>>>>> overload.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, there is interesting fallout over the ATT/TMobile thing this
>>>>> morning, but that's another story. Let's just say that the game
>>>>> playing is in full-force.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sometimes these days I am on ASDL (acronym spelling) broadband and it
>>>>>> claims to deliver 100Mbits / sec. My old Opera browsers, which I use
>>>>>> quite a
>>>>>> lot and which report actual download speeds, have told me over the
>>>>>> last
>>>>>> 24
>>>>>> hours that I'm getting just 2 kbps.
>>>>>
>>>>> I really doubt that your ADSL connection is 100Mbps. Your LAN
>>>>> connection from your computer to the modem is 100Mbps (or less if you
>>>>> use wireless), but your access circuit to the provider is probably no
>>>>> higher than 10Mbps. If you are getting just 2Kbps, then something is
>>>>> broken. That's just not right.
>>>>>
>>>>> AG
>>>
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