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    my new internet connection

    ok, my old connection downloaded at like 50 kb/s......it was high end cable wireless router, thru 5 walls, the floor, and a piano. it didnt work too well. this new thing.....it didnt have time to keep accelerating above 18,500 kb/s!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CdocZ
    ok, my old connection downloaded at like 50 kb/s......it was high end cable wireless router, thru 5 walls, the floor, and a piano. it didnt work too well. this new thing.....it didnt have time to keep accelerating above 18,500 kb/s!!!!
    thats still sorta slow isnt it? Im confused what is this new thing?

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    no idea, but its about 3 times the speed of t1!
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    18,500 kpbs... mother f*@#$r!!1

    thats isnane!!!
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    damn, that is fasT ! how much do you pay monthly for it ?

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    Thats... Kilobits right?

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    no idea, we dont have a real provider kind of thing.......(btw, im technologically retarded pretty much)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spastik_Roach
    Thats... Kilobits right?
    yeah......or 18.5 megabytes
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    thats like a 6 mb song in half a second...
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    No internet can possibly be that fast.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteballz
    thats like a 6 mb song in half a second...
    CdocZ, You lucky B@$t@rd!!

    Edit: Never mind. Turns out that's not true.
    Last edited by carlover; 01-23-2005 at 05:54 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteballz
    thats like a 6 mb song in half a second...
    Not quite.

    Cdocz you are comparing the speed at which you used to download stuff such as movies, files, etc from the internet with the one shown in those "internet speed tests"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niko_Fx
    Not quite.

    Cdocz you are comparing the speed at which you used to download stuff such as movies, files, etc from the internet with the one shown in those "internet speed tests"
    Indeed Im at 100mbs and It takes about a minute to download a song.

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    I think you are over exgeratting a bit why dont you do this test and then save the image and then upload it VIA Imageshack?

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    8 bits=1 byte
    1024 bytes= 1 kilobyte
    1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
    1024 MB = 1GB
    1024 GB = 1 TB etc, etc
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