What is the maximum download speed attained in a 256 kbps connection?
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As others said, 32KB is the theoretical maximum.  However, the real number can be smaller or GREATER than that.  Here are some factors, all assume a "perfect" line:\n\n- All data communications involve a certain amount of algorithmic overhead, the exact amount varies depending on protocols.  For instance, the TCP/IP protocol uses various packets for control and signaling, these overhead packets eat into your available bandwidth.\n\n- Related to the above is that the protocols add their own data to the data your transmitting.  Data such as recipient address information, information about the data being transferred, etc.  Again, the exact amount varies by the protocol.\n\n- In these days of fairly powerful computers but low bandwidth pipes, compression plays a large factor in determining true throughput numbers.  This is the way to achieve transfer rates higher than the theoretical max.  Things like word docs, text files, xml, html files are good candidates to be compressed and therefore transmitted at faster than theoretical speeds.  Unfortunately, other than xml and html files, a large portion of whats transferred over the net today are files which are already compressed (mp3, jpg, mpg, zip) so they don't benefit as much (if at all) from compression.\n\nSo the short answer to your question is, "it depends!"
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http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest
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try http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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Click on the link below & click on autorun speedtest....it tests download & upload speeds. I have found this online speed test to be the most informative & accurate of the many I have tried.\nhttp://www.kbps.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=41
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With a dial-up connection your upload speed usually stays in line with your download speed.  You are connected at 30kbps (I'm at 31.2kbps myself) so your upload speed will be about 2 to 3 kbps.\n\nYou can still attach the 1.5mb file, it will take a little while, but with patience it will go through.  I'm thinking around 7-10 minutes.
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You wont be able to download at 512KBs unless your internet plan is that speed.\n\nthe router wont help the speed only your plan will
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To answer twentieth century refugee's question, modems generally use kilobits.\n\nA 56k modem is (up to) 56,000 bits per second.  However, I've never actuallly seen a connection reach beyond 53k.  Now, if you divide by 8 bits and 1 stop bit (9 bits total,) this gives you up to 5,888 bytes.  However, I've never seen a download on a modem go faster than about 5.6 kB/sec.\n\nLet's try a 256k DSL modem.  Is that faster than a 256kB/sec download speed?  Well, to go from bits to bytes, we still divide by about 9, so 256*1000/9 = up to 28,444 bytes per second.  256kB/sec is only multiplied by 1000 to give us  256,000 bytes per second, which is quite a bit faster.\n\nNote that in other arenas, when converting from bytes to kilobytes, you might be dividing by 1024 instead of 1000.
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512 kbps I am using DSL
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about 1500MB\n\nhttp://www.easycalculation.com/bandwidth-calculator.php
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unlike others say, this doesn't affect the download speed. for example it's no problem for me to download files at a speed of 2mbps (megabits per second) with only a 600MHz CPU.\ndownload speed only depends on your internet connection, a 700MHz processor can handle it easily.
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You may be able to get a little bit more speed by adjusting the Maximum Transmitable Unit (MTU) size for the TCP/IP stack used by your operating system.  This is usually set for LAN (Local Area Network) connectivity, but can be adjusted to get better performance over internet connections.  You can search for "MTU Adjustment" as well as the name of your operating system in order to find sites that may have utilities for you to do this easily.\n\nDo note: your download speeds are also limited by the available bandwith which might be regulated by the remote site.  Some servers specifically limit the amount of bandwidth that they use to serve files and information, so that they can transmit to several different clients at once.  Just because you may be receiving a file at 20k/s from one site doesn't mean that you could not also be receiving another file at a different site simultaneously with the same or higher speed.\n\nAlso, DSL can be limited by your provider.  Some of them charge a premium for higher bandwidth speeds.  You need to see what your provider gives you as a maximum.
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No. Your Internet Service Provider has a certain allowable upload + download bandwidth limit which will only allow you to obtain a set limit.\n\nHaving two connections going will not increase your internet speed, but only waste your system resources.
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12 Mbps is cool. It means 12 Megabits per second (You don't need to add another per second here). A bit is the smallest unit of information and your connection allows you to exchange 12 * 1024 * 1024 bits of information in every second. \nWell that is the maximum that you can get. The average will be lesser generally.\n\nThe short answer to your question is, it is pretty fast. enjoy.
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1 MB, 2 MB, 8 MB etc.. speeds are not big deal for now since most applications on the internet ran smoothly even with speeds less than 1 MB.. Unless if .you are browsing on a graphic/flash-heavily  intensive site. but that's just less than .01% of all sites in the internet.. Also if you are downloading large files downlink speed is important.. If you are uploading files uplink speed is important.. but you have to check your provider on these..  But for me this is not too important considering with the competition most providers provide faster speeds.\n\nWith that said, what I can suggest is you choose a provider that has a good tracking record with 99.99% uptime, with consistent speed and above all 24 hour technical PHONE support..\n\nThere are other criteria but for me those above are my priority\n\nGoodluck!
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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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It depends on the type of network you have.  Most are 100 megabits per second (Ethernet) and newer ones are 1000 megabits per second (G-Ethernet).\n\nThese are the two typical rate for wired network connections.\n\nFor unwired connections (802.11g), it's usually 54 megabits per second (although that's theoretical and your real world performance is probably around 20 megabits per second, but it varies depending on the card and chipset) , and for the slower 802.11b, it's 11 megabits per second (theoretical), meaning you get around 5 to 7 megabits per second in real world performance.