# Connection Speed at Home **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830 "2004-04-07T14:45:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/1 "2004-04-07T14:45:20Z")
It’s [reported](http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18900366) that a fifth of US home internet subscribers have broadband connections. What are Kirupa users (US and not) using? I still have dialup at home :-/ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/2 "2004-08-22T15:19:31Z")
Now broadband is at just over 50% (among americans) [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20674-2004Aug21.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20674-2004Aug21.html) Im still on dialup ☹ I bet the other 5 people got broadband by now too ;( ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/3 "2004-08-22T15:28:21Z")
> [@SeiferTim](#): > > This is all from my brain, from school, a looooong time ago… I may be wrong… > Well, a bit is either a 1 or a 0 value. There are 8 bits in a Byte. 1 Ascii Character is one Byte large. > So a megabit would be a million bits, or a million binary digits, or 1 Million / 8 Characters. > (no calculator available right now… ☹ ) > So, if you get 12MBps, then every second, you’re transfering 12 \* (1million/8) Ascii characters. > So if you have a text document, that is exactly equal to that length in characters (letters, numbers, puncuation, spaces, etc), it can be downloaded in 1 second. > > Interesting factoid: because a Byte equals 8 bits, 4 bits (which are used sometimes) were named a Nibble… who says computer nerds don’t have a sense of humor? 🙂 Actually, the text document would have to be (width of connection-1) bytes, because all text documents end with an EOF byte 😉 Yeah, I know, I’m a pedant. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/4 "2004-08-22T17:35:47Z")
I have 3 mbps cable. My whole house is wired with 100mbps cables. Also, we have a 802.11G (54 mpbs) encrypted wireless network running around too. Horrible upload though. 14 KBps ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/5 "2004-08-22T17:54:23Z")
dsl here, not been down once, yet I used to have cable and it was down like every other day… I love this 😃 and I can’t imagine ever having anything except broadband 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/6 "2004-08-22T17:55:40Z")
My cable hasn’t been down in years, and the DSL in my area is much slower than cable. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/7 "2004-08-22T17:56:51Z")
dsl is the exact same speed here, and cheaper 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/8 "2004-08-22T17:58:09Z")
DSL here is 2mbps max, and cable is 3mbps. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/9 "2004-08-22T18:03:14Z")
Does DSL’s upload exceed Cable’s upload usually? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/10 "2004-08-22T18:07:02Z")
If you pay extra at my ISP you can get upload up to 3 mbps. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/11 "2004-08-22T18:20:02Z")
DSL :pleased: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/12 "2004-08-22T18:34:38Z")
lol my speed is 82kbps upload and about 210kbps download… i just moved from chello (yeh UPC :S) to Demon.nl dutch company… and i have to say they rule… i had terible connection with (chello/cabel) but now things are 100% ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/13 "2004-08-22T18:55:34Z")
> [@Maxtr0sity](#): > > Does DSL’s upload exceed Cable’s upload usually? Depends. If it’s ADSL, then nope. If it’s SDSL, then yes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/14 "2004-08-22T19:07:27Z")
Care to explain the difference? (I’m a cable user so I don’t know these things) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/15 "2004-08-22T19:17:30Z")
> [@Krilnon](#): > > Care to explain the difference? (I’m a cable user so I don’t know these things) Well, ADSL stands for Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line. ADSL means that upload/download are asymetric, meaning they don’t match - one will have to be larger than the other. SDSL stands for Symetric Digital Subscriber Line - so upload/download are the same. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/16 "2004-08-22T19:44:45Z")
Interesting. I must have ACable. 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/17 "2004-08-23T09:37:54Z")
I have dial-up. Yeah the rumours are true its crap. I never really download stuff though i have a friend who does that for me. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connection-speed-at-home/47830/18 "2004-08-23T12:27:09Z")
Any plans on getting it in the future? Its hard to go back once you switch though. One of my friends has 56k, and he never hears the end of it. :lol: