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What are the most common questions I get is how do I improve my download speed? But the more important question is can you get a faster connection for what you are paying now for a slower connection and it is very important you understand kilobits per second and kilobytes per second in order to go forward.
First of all I want to say if you are using aol connect or walmart connect please discontinue those services because you are already paying way to much for a really, really crappy connection and horrible tech support. They get their money from books banning CD’s and magazines and putting their CD’s everywhere imaginable. There is tons of better services right now I am using DSL.
The benefit of DSL over cable is that if you have cable and your neighbors also have cable it is like you share the same connection, you share the same bandwidth. With DSL you get to dedicate your connection only for yourself in your bandwidth will not deplete if you have a person next door or something that is always have their torrent programs are on or there for the periods that works on.
When we give you an example first so, we need to understand kilobits per second and kilobyte per second. When we say I am going to download again, I am going to say download dofus, it is an online French mmorpg in I choose that because it has an easy download page. I just click download in starts downloading and it quite a big file.
I can see the download starting right here and I am going 400 in 30 kilobytes per second right here. 450KB/sec, this is what you usually see when you download in thorns or limewire or some other for the period of that work. 470 something kilobytes per second, okay I am going to cancel this but just remember 430.
Okay, now I am going to take a bandwidth test. I am going to say speed test on Google, I am going to say speed test and just like the random one in this case it has a pretty crazy flash interface but it allows me to select from different locations around the US. I just click location and it is going to tell me exactly how fast my connection speed is.
But wait a minute remember that I was downloading at 430KB in right here it is a 5,100KBPS. So, that is a huge difference just because they change from kb to a kbps and it is going to tell me my upload speed too and the upload speed basically determines how fast you going to download of thorns because thorns are based on sharing ratios. The more you give, the more you going to get. So, your thorn download are basically usually going to be as fast as your fastest upload speed.
But keep this number in mind now it is a 5,130 in guess me the result here. But here is how you check, kbps is actually kilobits per second and kb is kilobytes so that is what you have usually see kilobytes whenever you are downloading.
How do I check the conversion? I can actually use Google as a calculator I can say 5,130kilobits in kilobytes.
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