| OHHHHHHH Canada im doing my part to lesson this burden for the world OH wait higher is better damn sorry world canada sucks |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Correction "Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps. |
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jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | said by tiger72:"Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps.
Yeah, I don't get it why companies that do so much internet-related stuff mix up megabits and megabytes so often. I understand when the average consumer or non-technical company does it, but if you are doing an in-depth study about internet speeds, learn to use the right vocabulary. |
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 whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC
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said by tiger72:"Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps.
The article is correct.
Mbps = Megabits (lower b) per second.
MBps = Megabytes (upper B) per second. |
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 recoil0Premium
join:2005-02-22
Exton, PA | Not necessarily, they explicitly write out megabytes followed up with Mbps(Megabits) |
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jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | said by recoil0:Not necessarily, they explicitly write out megabytes followed up with Mbps(Megabits) Agreed... Spelling out the word "megabytes" can never mean "megabits" regardless of what abbreviation they followed it up with. |
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| Somehow I seriously doubt this. My Verizon LTE connection averages around 20 -30 mbps, but LTE is still no very widespread, Verizon and AT&T still don't have a lot of LTE subscribers and when you consider other customers most of which are on HSPA+ or HSPA, it becomes much harder to believe I have a HSPA+ 21 S2 on AT&T as my work phone and it averages about 7-8 mbps, the iphone 4S has a maximum speed of 14.4 mbps.
Are they averaging the theoretical maximum of a carrier's service or the average download speed users actually see?
In the article it's self they talk about how many carriers advertise speeds above 21mbps.
I think this is a trick to make carrier's look better than they are in real life. |
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whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC Reviews:
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Re: Correction said by jcremin:Agreed... Spelling out the word "megabytes" can never mean "megabits" regardless of what abbreviation they followed it up with.
Wow. My mind totally skimmed over that. You are totally right. |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | reply to MovieLover76
Re: Somehow I seriously doubt this. Globally, most places are 14.4 HSPA+ or 21 HSPA+. Some countries are still using GPRS or EDGE, but the standard is pretty much 14.4 or 21, with the exceptions being LTE and GPRS/EDGE-only. |
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jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | reply to whfsdude
Re: Correction  Happens to me all the time too... Kind of like auto-correct built into your brain. |
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| It's a great time to roam HSPA+ is everywhere now, and it's generally very cheap for service. In the last three months I've used different cell companies in Spain, Germany, Hungary, and Romania and all have been shockingly fast with generally very strong coverage in metropolitan areas. Turkcell in Turkey has been the only exception because they have some congestion issues, but overall they weren't too bad either. In the US we have pretty good speeds, but the data allotments are quite low and expensive. This is just my opinion, of course. |
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 japPremium
join:2003-08-10
038xx | reply to funny
Re: OHHHHHHH Canada said by funny:Canada sucks What posture have provincial governments (I hope it not national  ) taken against or for muni development? And are telcos required to sell backhaul to all comers as they are in the US? |
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| It's still just 2.7Mb here! Those figures can't be right with 4G on T-Mobile still being just 2.7Mb. I guess they don't count for much of the total though.
Of course you can't get 4G everywhere so it's Edge at 127kb or nothing at all most places. |
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