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29/05/09
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the previous guy went through the hassle to explain the diferences. The wireless industry needs to use the diferent formats because of diferent wireless protocls that are not 8bytes in size. also lower k and upper K is used as well making you sound a little retarded :)
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Making mention of 'b' and 'B' is interesting when the modem is doing 111.3 Kelvin bytes per second ...
'k' is for kilo and 'K' is for Kelvin.
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Jay
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Just of late after a number of complaints to OPTUS about a 64KB/s download speed, I was told buy tech suport my line speed of the e169 was 256kbps,Well the line speed i was geting when i first perchast my modem and plan it was 1500kbps-190KB/s-250KB/s peak 3000kbps-320KB/s-450KB/s off peak Im very upset to see that the back throttling has gone this far as OPTUS has sold there product as an UNCAPED HSDPA 7.2MB modem and sim package.
http://www.ozspeedtest.com
Connection Type Typical kbps Typical KB/s
28K Dialup 28.8 kbps 3.6 KB/s
56K Dialup 56.6 kbps 7 KB/s
256/64 ADSL 200/56 - 256/64 kbps 25/7 - 32/8 KB/s
512/128 ADSL 400/108 - 512/128 kbps 50/13 - 64/16 KB/s
1500/256 ADSL 1200/216 - 1500/256 kbps 150/27 - 188/32 KB/s
8000/384 ADSL 1500/326 - 8000/384 kbps 188/40 - 1000/48 KB/s
12/1 ADSL2 1500/700 - 12000/1000 kbps 188/88 - 1500/125 KB/s
24/1 ADSL2+ 1500/700 - 24000/1000 kbps 188/88 - 3000/125 KB/s
24/2.5 ADSL2+ Annex M 1500/700 - 24000/2500 kbps 188/88 - 3000/312 KB/s
Uncapped*/128 Cable 2880/108 - 10000/128 kbps 360/13 - 1250/16 KB/s
Uncapped*/256 Cable 2880/216 - 10000/256 kbps 360/27 - 1250/32 KB/s
Broadband Speed Test Results
Test run on 05/01/2012 @ 02:02 PM
Mirror: Optus
Data: 3 MB
Test Time: 111.16 secs
Your line speed is 220 kbps (0.22 Mbps).
Your download speed is 28 KB/s (0.03 MB/s).
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