7 Jan
2006
7 Jan
'06
12:14 p.m.
On 07/01/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
Remember that ADSL (if that's what you mean by 'broadband') is only 256kb/s in the 'up' direction. That's 256k *bits* per second. Thus at the absolute best you're only going to get 256k/8 bytes per second which is 32kbytes/sec. Thus it's going to take something like 30 seconds per magabyte transferred.
It's forty times slower than even 10Mb/s ethernet and four hundred times slower than your typical office 100Mb/s network.
Grief, no wonder it is slow then. That is going to be so slow as to be unusable. How do other people manage?
Thanks, Jenny