How fast is fast in terms of internet speed?
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For the internet, speeds of 45 MB/s are considered fast. The company I work for has an OC3 link which is 155 MB/s
136994
the average for dial up is about 5 kb/sec.  the download starts at rapid speed as there is a delay between the actual download start and the window that pops up, so there is already data downloaded and the computer averages the time elapsed and the data downloaded to get the speed. this is obiviously inaccurate, and usually only happens with IE. btw, i have a 3 megabyte per second  connection that downloads at an average of 644 kb/sec.
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Your connection to the Access Point is 20 Mbps. Whatever that access point is connected to the internet is the bottleneck (like the dsl modem). So if you are at 20 Mb and the connection to the inetrnet is 768Kbps, then you effective speed would be 768Kbps. TX
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http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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Cable is typically 3Mbps or faster throughput, and DSL is usually limited to 1 or less. You can get business DSL and get faster speeds, but the latency on cable is much faster then DSL. The company I work for the majority of my employees use Cable and I suggest cable just because of that reason. Cable can actually reach speeds of 10Mpbs a second I beleive and DSL is pretty limited as cable companies I've heard across the US are upgrading the speed already from what its at now.
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Well it may not be your Speed where your at but actually could be the end users speed where you are downloading from. They may post that they have such great connection when it turns out to be a dial up connection. You can check on http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ and test your internet speed. If you noticed that you is fine than there isnt much you can it all depends on the end side.
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It depends what kind of connection you want. According to CNET, here are the ISP's with the fastest connections (circa November 2005): \n\nFor Dial-up: Sympatico\nFor DSL: Microsoft Network, MSN\nFor Cable: Shaw\nFor Broadband: Shaw\nMost popular ISP: Comcast\n\nYou can see the full charts at the link below. Hope this helps!
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Honestly, NO!  The speed of the internet is all based of the the speed that the data is sent through the system.  We have the Technology to make the internet 1000 times faster, BUT, people would loose too much money, and evolution would not be correct anymore.  So no matter how you look at it, man is holding man back, and the net will NOT speed up until they decide to release more technology.
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There are two forms of movement in internet connections, download and upload speeds. Upload is how much information you sent. Download is how much you recieve. Typically download speeds are slower than upload speeds. I believe that for a 56kbps dial up your download speed is 33kbps much much slower.
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If your question is whether cable is "faster" than DSL, check out http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/129.  The answer is yes, with caveats.
56749
depends on your local Internet Service Provider(ISP), but at most it takes 10 second.
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Very simple: your dial-up connection has a maximum speed of 56 KB/s (kilobits/second) which is the equivalent of 7 KB/s (kilobytes per second). In your case 40 kbps= 5 kBps.\nnote: 1KB/s=8Kb/s (1 kilobyte/s = 8 kilobit/s )
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100 Mbps is just the standard Local Area Connection speed that will show in your computer - especially if you're using a PC = which we can check in the Local Area Network Properties\n\nPlease call you ISP - Internet Service Provider for an upgrade... try asking for 3-6 Megs
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Theoretically it should be 1000mbps ... but this is usually never the case if you're lucky and everything is working fine you should achieve approx 3/4 of the actual rated speed
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1.0 or 1.1? 1.0 is about 1.5 mbps, which would be no good, of course, but 1.1 is around 12mbps.
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yes. if more than 1 person uses the internet at the same time, the speed is shared between them.\n\nexample:\nInternet speed= 1Mb/s\n2 users at same time= 0.5Mb/s each
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