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Dwainage · 08-16-2002, 08:13 AM

[quote:12645]Man, Comcast really sucks, my effective upload speed is like 15kbps, which is a misadvertiment of their so called 128kbps (Yea right, lol). I called Comcast up and explained my slow speed, what do they say ? Maybe you should upgrade your service to the Professional service, another 60$ more They dont care about me[/quote:12645]

You actually do have a 128kbs (kilo bits per second) connection. What you usually see when you're uploading or downloading something is KB/s (kilo bytes per second). A byte is composed of eight bits, so a 128kbs connection is actually a 16KB/s (hundred twenty eight divided by eight) connection. Which is close to what you reported.

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Dwainage is Offline Junior Member Posts: 1 Join Date: Aug 2002	08-16-2002, 08:13 AM [quote:12645]Man, Comcast really sucks, my effective upload speed is like 15kbps, which is a misadvertiment of their so called 128kbps (Yea right, lol). I called Comcast up and explained my slow speed, what do they say ? Maybe you should upgrade your service to the Professional service, another 60$ more They dont care about me[/quote:12645] You actually do have a 128kbs (kilo bits per second) connection. What you usually see when you're uploading or downloading something is KB/s (kilo bytes per second). A byte is composed of eight bits, so a 128kbs connection is actually a 16KB/s (hundred twenty eight divided by eight) connection. Which is close to what you reported.