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Quick download speed question
Underdog
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Is there much of a speed difference between this company's high speed dsl and basic dsl?
http://www.teksavvy.com/en/resdsl.asp?ID=7&mID=1
I've been told that the basic dsl is now actually 640k (they haven't had the time to correct the website yet), which is the same as 5M right? So the only difference between the high speed and the basic is the upload speed yeah?
http://www.teksavvy.com/en/resdsl.asp?ID=7&mID=1
I've been told that the basic dsl is now actually 640k (they haven't had the time to correct the website yet), which is the same as 5M right? So the only difference between the high speed and the basic is the upload speed yeah?
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So there is a big difference between highspeed and regular.....assuming you don't get fucked by "up to" bullshit as per the relevant PA comic ...which I can't seem to find
Edit: 5 megs is probably 5000 KB in this case....marketing people can't handle powers of 2 so they just warped words till they fit.
Also keep in mind that those speeds may not be accurate depending on what area you live in. Here in Stoney Creek I wouldn't have gotten half that speed, so I went with another provider. They were entirely upfront about it when I called.
No, 5Mb would be much faster than 640Kb. In BOTH cases (not just the M), the b is actually bits, not bytes, so you can directly compare them and see that the faster one will (potentially) be about 8 times faster.
The prices for their different plans confuses me, since 200GB/month and Unlimited on the Basic DSL are the same price, and it's only $5/month more to get 5Mb over 640Kb.
Common notation is KB for KiloBytes and Kb for Kilobits, the same for MegaBytes/bits and GigaBytes/bits.
Indeed. However, the website in question just uses k and M. And I've frequently seen it misused anyway on other company websites when reporting speeds because the people writing up the marketing material usually don't know the difference.
Basically, anytime you're looking at advertised internet speeds from some company, it's always in bits, because it lets them report larger numbers and sound faster to people who don't know the difference.