1000 megabytes/second?

[reddog]

Today I found out why my cable internet service was running me $75 a month. Tha cable company (adelphia) told me it was because I some how signed up for their new super high speed internet. Basicaly they told me that now you have standard high speed internet and premier high speed internet. The lady I talked to claimed that their new service is capable of 1000 megabytes per second...... and this is with no extra equipment. Now was I wrong to say that she was lunny for sugesting that that speed is posible? Exspecialy to consumers? Correct me if I'm wrong but that is 1 gig a second correct? Is this posible over a cable modem. And even if it is posible there is no way to get it from the modem to the computer at that speed, right?

So what's the deal everyone. Am I lunny or is she?

[lnmnky]

where are you in the world?

USA?

You could probably get 1000 megabits yeah, but maybe not 1000 megabytes. Even hard disks can't cope with a gigabyte per second, so how can you download that fast?

[Hankyone]

there is a difference between Bytes and bits

edit:too slow! :pinch:

[Keito]

maybe she ment 1000 Kilo BIT per second (which definitely is 'normal' since I've got a 4000kbit connection)... but 1000 megabit would be A LOT...

[BxBoy]

there is a difference between Bytes and bits

HUGE DIFFERENCE

[clonk]

I do believe the only (non-local) network capable of gigabit communication like that is Internet2. I think the lady had to be mistaken.

[lnmnky]

So if you are in USA with 1000 kilobits per second for $75. Then that's expensive. And it is no way "premier high speed internet"

Why not just do a speed test?

[Rishdeep]

HUGE DIFFERENCE

Well... a difference of x 8.

[reddog]

there is a difference between Bytes and bits

edit:too slow! :pinch:

I know. I asked her if she was sure it was megabytes, she even asked a supervisor and they both said 1000 megabytes per second. I said they were both crazy and that speed wasn't possible. But you know how it is, the customer knows nothing:)

Oh well, off to lala land I go.

[Rudy]

I know. I asked her if she was sure it was megabytes, she even asked a supervisor and they both said 1000 megabytes per second. I said they were both crazy and that speed wasn't possible. But you know how it is, the customer knows nothing:)

Oh well, off to lala land I go.

go to broadbandreports.com and do a speed test

[ParaDockS]

According to Adelphia's website, the premier high-speed only goes up to 4 megabits/sec

[reddog]

I've done speed test and come in where I should be as far a normal cable speed goes. The lady said that the new service wasn't available in my area anyways.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

yes hude difference

8x

I have a 4600kbit connection for 45$ per month

[Another_Paul]

Remember, 8 bits in a byte.

[atomicski]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

[idbuythatforadollar]

Internet backbones barley run at 1Gbit/s, let alone 1GByte/s!!

She probably meant either 1000KB/s download speed (10mbit line) or 1000KBit/s (1MBit line)

[zzachattack2]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

10 gigabit ethernet.....1.25 gigaBYTE/second.

[BigCheese]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

Caltech and CERN top new performance threshold by sending 859GB at more than 6.6 Gbps across nearly 16,000 km

Ann Arbor, Mich. ? September 1, 2004 ? An international team has broken their own record and set a new Internet2® Land Speed Record by transferring 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes across nearly 16,000 kilometers of networks at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, about 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The record was set by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN using the same IPv4 protocols deployed throughout the global Internet

The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) is an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, with judging based on the speed of transfer multiplied by the distance traveled. Because of delays due to the speed of light and other factors, data transfer over the Internet becomes more challenging as speed, or distance, or both increase. With a mark of more than 104.5 petabit-meters per second, this record is the first time the 100 "petabump" performance threshold has been broken.

[Steven]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

The fastest server in the USA is OOL and thats 8Mb (1Meg/sec)

[Steven]

Caltech and CERN top new performance threshold by sending 859GB at more than 6.6 Gbps across nearly 16,000 km

Ann Arbor, Mich. ? September 1, 2004 ? An international team has broken their own record and set a new Internet2? Land Speed Record by transferring 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes across nearly 16,000 kilometers of networks at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, about 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The record was set by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN using the same IPv4 protocols deployed throughout the global Internet

The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) is an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, with judging based on the speed of transfer multiplied by the distance traveled. Because of delays due to the speed of light and other factors, data transfer over the Internet becomes more challenging as speed, or distance, or both increase. With a mark of more than 104.5 petabit-meters per second, this record is the first time the 100 "petabump" performance threshold has been broken.

eh.. thats gigabits.. 6.6 to be exact. and it takes 8 gigabits to equal 1 GigaB:pe. :p

[lillitnn92]

i have basic adelphia and i get speeds up to 2800Kbps. in the begining i was getting the premium speeds of 4Mbps, but they must have decide to split it in half and charge more for 4Mbps

another thing people get confused with (which is probably the womam and her supervisors problem) is that lower case "b" is bits and upper case "B" is bytes. people who don't know better just assume b it bytes.

[Rahul]

HUGE DIFFERENCE

brotha 1 byte = 1024 bits

now da difference would be huge

btw in mah crap ass country im getting 64 kilo bits / sec after payin 30$ U.S. a month . now aint i being ripped !!!! :unsure:

[Veiva]

Sir, you are wrong. 1 byte = 8 bits. Not 1024 bits. I character is 8 bits, or one byte. It cannot take up more than that (on ASCII machines that is).

[lillitnn92]

brotha 1 byte = 1024 bits

now da difference would be huge

btw in mah crap ass country im getting 64 kilo bits / sec after payin 30$ U.S. a month . now aint i being ripped !!!! :unsure:

any individual 1 or 0 = bit

4 bits = nibble

8 bits = a byte

16 bits = a word

32 bits = a double word

64 bits = a paragraph or quad word

taken directly from my A+ book

[zzachattack2]

brotha 1 byte = 1024 bits

now da difference would be huge

btw in mah crap ass country im getting 64 kilo bits / sec after payin 30$ U.S. a month . now aint i being ripped !!!! :unsure:

you may be thinking of bytes vs kilobytes or megabytes or etc which would be a multiple of 1024.