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janipewter · 13-06-2006, 23:08

The upstream data rate on the 10Mbps product is 384Kbps, which is relatively slow in comparison to the large downstream data rate.

And in reply to the first post by J.D: the connection speed itself is measured in kilobits per second (10240Kbps or 10Mbps), but programs such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and I imagine most other web browsers, P2P applications etc measure the download rate in kilobytes per second (the theoretical maximum for 10Mbit being 1,250KB/s or 1.25MB/s). Since there are 8(eight) bits in a byte, to convert between you two you just divide by or multiply be 8 respectively.

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janipewter Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plymouth Age: 37 Services: Sky HD Multiroom, VM XL Phone, VM XXL BB Posts: 654	Re: Telewest/Blueyonder Speed Upgrades- Have you been upgraded yet??? The upstream data rate on the 10Mbps product is 384Kbps, which is relatively slow in comparison to the large downstream data rate. And in reply to the first post by J.D: the connection speed itself is measured in kilobits per second (10240Kbps or 10Mbps), but programs such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and I imagine most other web browsers, P2P applications etc measure the download rate in kilobytes per second (the theoretical maximum for 10Mbit being 1,250KB/s or 1.25MB/s). Since there are 8(eight) bits in a byte, to convert between you two you just divide by or multiply be 8 respectively.