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Trojan
go for it bro, but going past 40mb is a waste imho. going from 3mb-40mb was amazing but 40+ is only if you torrent regularly or have insane needs.

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Aengus
currently at 7 mbps according to ookla but when I'm actually downloading stuff I usually get about 800 kbps

b1n0gHo5t
b1n0gHo5t
how accurate is that speedtest site ?

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Aengus
God knows to be honest

b1n0gHo5t
b1n0gHo5t
was going to say i may have to send BT a thank you package for the free upgrade XD beats my brothers virgin internet

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Aengus
free? your lucky costing my fanily £5 extra a month

T
Trojan
speedtest is very accurate

i get something like 40megaBITS per second which is 4megaBYTES per second in real downloads.

7MegaBITS is a bit 0.7-0.8megaBYTES (800kbps).

it's just ISP's use the marketing term, of megabits to inflate there numbers, but the internet uses bytes.

b1n0gHo5t
b1n0gHo5t
ok not as free as i thought..i've been getting charged 5 pounds a month on BT sports online..something i've never EVER asked for

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Aengus
Ah ok trojan :)

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AK47frizzle
Ummm lol no. There are 8 bits in a byte. If it displays 40 Mbps then your download is 5 MBps. Your 800 kbps makes sense since 7 divided by 8 is roughly 800-900 (sh*t fluctuates a lot).

I don't care what you say; there are 8 bits in a byte.

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