Sympatico Optimax
- Thread starter Esco!
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yeah but it has upload and download caps. 50 GB for 10 Mbs and 100GB for the 16 Mbs and costs $1 per GB over your limit. The upload capacity is 100 KB/s no better than Rogers Extreme.Esco! said:
It's not worth it for that so called extra speed. I will stick to the Ultra for now with no caps as I dl close to 200 GB per month.
Sympatico Optimax 10:Esco! said:
10 Mbps download speed / 1 Mbps upload speed
Regular price: $70.00 per month
Sympatico Optimax 16:
16 Mbps download speed / 1 Mbps upload speed
Regular price: $100.00 per month
http://memberservices.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/mmhs.exe?WTS:pid=28&mm_tcode=58849&mm_epid=238990939
Read the fine print.
Available to residential clients where technology permits. Subject to change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offer. Early termination fees apply with all term agreements. Taxes extra. Other conditions apply.
1.) Sympatico Optimax 10 includes 50GB of download and upload capacity per month; $1.25 per additional GB, billed in increments of 1GB. Sympatico Optimax 16 includes 75GB of download and upload capacity per month; $1.00 per additional GB, billed in increments of 1GB.
2.) Applies to the access speed between the client's modem and Bell's switching equipment. Speeds may vary with your technical configuration, Internet traffic, server, environmental conditions or other factors.
3.) Due to technical requirements, installer may suggest a different service package than the one initially selected by client.
It's not 1,000 KB/s, you idiot! That would be 10 Mbps.tman said:
1 Mbps is roughly 125 KB/s.
I think I know what I'm talking about, dumbass !
According to the link below, 1 mbps = 122.1 KB/s. (thats because there is 1024 bytes in a 1 KB).
http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/07/28/the-broadband-speed-guide/
Sympatico Ultra was advertising 868 kbps which is about 83 KB/s. for easy conversion, I leave the number in thousands and divided by 8 and you get the speed in KB/s.
If you want to be accurate, take into account 1024 bytes in 1 Kilobyte.
256 kbps = 31.3 KB/s
512 kbps = 62.5 KB/s
1 mbps = 122.1 KB/s
5 mbps = 610.3 KB/s
10 mbps = 1220.7 KB/s
There is a big difference between Kbps - Kilo-bits-per-second - and KB/s - Kilo-Bytes-per-second.
In the computer jargon, bits and bytes are both units used to measure file sizes, but 1 byte = 8 bits. Therefore, your DSL speed, which is 256 Kbps (Kilobits per second), is also 256 / 8 = 32 KB/s (Kilo Bytes per second). Most of the time, your computer displays download speeds in KB/s, not Kbps. So, if you are downloading a file at 32 KB/s, you making full use of your 256 Kbps DSL line.
*one more thing: the "M" in 1 Mbps stands for 1 Mega bits per second. We all learned at school that K stands for Kilo, which is 1,000 ; and M stands for Mega, 1 Million, therefore, 1 M should be 1,000 K, right? But since computer engineers and marketing agents are definitely not willing to make your life easy, they decided 1 M would stand for either 1,000K or 1,024K. In our case, for DSL speeds, 1 Mbps = 1,024 Kbps, so 3 Mbps are 3,072 Kbps (which translates to 384 KB/s, are you still following?). For the hard drives, it's the contrary, which is why, when you buy a 250 GB hard drive, your computer tells you it's only got 232.8 GB of available space.
thanks for coming out.
I will stick with my extreme cable for now
5MB/s download
1Mb/s up
100GB / month cap (for $48.95)
but in a couple of months, I may switch to a wireless business package
using a 5.2GHz signal
5MB download
1MB upload
200GB cap... all for $54.99 / month
.. looks like the same company will soon be offering BPL
5MB/s download
1Mb/s up
100GB / month cap (for $48.95)
but in a couple of months, I may switch to a wireless business package
using a 5.2GHz signal
5MB download
1MB upload
200GB cap... all for $54.99 / month
.. looks like the same company will soon be offering BPL
1024 is 2 to the power of 10, so there are 2 to the power of 20, (2^20), bytes in a megabyte and 2^30 bytes in a gigabyte.joebear said:
2^10 is 400 in hexadecimal, (base 16), 2^20 is 10,000 in HEX, and 2^30 is 4,000,000, so they're nice round numbers, just not in base 10.
On a similar note, the maximum number of cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is 16,777, 216, (maximum 256 columns from A - IV, and maximum 65,536 rows). 256 is 2^8, (100 HEX), and 65,536 is 2^16, (1,000,000 in HEX.
