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I am a total computer novice and i just did the speed test. Mine seems a lot slower than everyone else's and we have Roadrunner Turbo. I was getting like 1.5- 1.8 mbps for download and about 1 Mb for uploads. That seems pretty slow. What sorts of things affect your download and upload speed? I'm using a MacBook Intel Core Duo 2.16 Ghz, 1 gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. At least thats what my computer tells me http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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I am a total computer novice and i just did the speed test. Mine seems a lot slower than everyone else's and we have Roadrunner Turbo. I was getting like 1.5- 1.8 mbps for download and about 1 Mb for uploads. That seems pretty slow. What sorts of things affect your download and upload speed? I'm using a MacBook Intel Core Duo 2.16 Ghz, 1 gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. At least thats what my computer tells me http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
No that is fine right there.

 

Bits are the basic units of language in a computer, called binary language. They compose of 0s and 1s. Since there are just two digits, every number, digit, word letter etc is represented in powers of 2.

Hence, 2 to the power 10 = 1024 now, every unit is a multiple of that. So, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes and the order follows.

 

1MB=1024KB

1024MB=1GB

Data Measurement Chart

Data Measurement Size

Bit Single Binary Digit (1 or 0)

Byte 8 bits

Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 Bytes

Megabyte (MB) 1,024 Kilobytes

Gigabyte (GB) 1,024 Megabytes

Terabyte (TB) 1,024 Gigabytes

Petabyte (PB) 1,024 Terabytes

Exabyte (EB) 1,024 Petabytes

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What sorts of things affect your download and upload speed?
If you have other programs running that use bandwidth while you are running your test, you will not get an accurate speed rating. For example if you have any downloads running, any filesharing, any media streaming, (youtube, etc) you will want to close and/or stop those before running a speed test.
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how did you post the fancy smancy pic of your results? I didn't see a link to post it or maybe I did it wrong.

Once you have the test done it should take you to another page. It says "Your Speed Test Result" on top and right below that is "Share Your Result." Copy the url in the direct link and then put it in the image thing from here.

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Jimbo, I'd try again. I think your provider might have been in a mood at the time you tested.

 

b19, if your service is 3 MB download and 512 K upload, you'd seem to be doing fine.

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