you have to be careful how you measure bandwidth. An ISP giving you 1Mbps to the internet is just marketing, no one will ever give you guaranteed service to the internet for the simple reason that the internet is EVERYWHERE like the matrix:-))...it means different things for different people.... I'll give an example, lets assume everyday all you access is a website hosted at a local ISP whose access is via KIXP, and your neighbor accesses facebook via the same ISP, you'll probably be saying totally different things about this ISP especially if they (the ISP) have insufficient international capacity but sufficient local capacity..... what your ISP probably means is they have guaranteed you 1Mbps from your house to their premise...which probably means squat but looks good on paper:-).... On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunktoids,
We got this deal from some ISP which I won't name for now, and they tell us that our speeds are 1MBps for both the uplink and downlink, but I highly doubt what they are telling us. Files normally download at a speed of 100kbps on average, and I do not think that that correctly reflects what the ISP is saying. However, I am not an expert on this matters, and that is why I have sought to ask the gurus on the list to shed some light.
Attached hereto is a speedtest.net result graphic for more info. Thanks.
Me.
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