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Old 08-26-2019, 06:18 PM
 
Location: NC
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Results from different locations will vary but they should not vary much.
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Actually they do and will vary quite a bit as expected.

The rest of your troubleshooting 101 was meant for the OP, not me. I've worked in IT since the 8bit era, I do not need technical assistance. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Old 08-27-2019, 04:00 AM
 
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Actually they do and will vary quite a bit as expected.

Will depend but the variance is usually not that great, if you have a 100Mbps connection it should only be a few Mbps. Other factors like distance play a roll, the further away it is typically the lower it will be.
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Old 08-27-2019, 07:10 AM
 
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differentiate between MBytes and Mbits 8bits =Byte...100MBs =standard etethernet card..the newer ones are 1000MBs


older wifi standards are a,b,g g being the fastest of those 54MBs...my fairly new laptop only gets signal of 72Mbs...newer wifi n supposed to have 150 and 300Mbs...and nothing runs at 100%
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Old 08-27-2019, 08:34 AM
 
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differentiate between MBytes and Mbits 8bits =Byte...100MBs =standard etethernet card..the newer ones are 1000MBs

I don't believe any ISP uses anything but Mbps
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Old 08-27-2019, 12:36 PM
 
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differentiate between MBytes and Mbits 8bits =Byte...100MBs =standard etethernet card..the newer ones are 1000MBs
We have 40/100/200/400Gigibit(802.3cd and others) ports in the enterprise these days. Agreed many people seem to think Mbit and MB are interchangeable when they actually aren't since they specifically mean different things. Same for Gbit(Gbps) and GB/s

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Old 08-29-2019, 09:51 AM
 
Location: The DMV
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differentiate between MBytes and Mbits 8bits =Byte...100MBs =standard etethernet card..the newer ones are 1000MBs


older wifi standards are a,b,g g being the fastest of those 54MBs...my fairly new laptop only gets signal of 72Mbs...newer wifi n supposed to have 150 and 300Mbs...and nothing runs at 100%
Actually ethernet is measured in Mbps. E.g fast ethernet is 100 megabits per second.
GigE is a gigabit/second.

From a networking standard, transmission speeds are measured in bits/second. At the physical layer, it's about how fast you can pump the 0's and 1's through.

As you move up the layers, you start working with actual information, which is typically measured in bytes - e.g. storage, I/O of data/information, etc.
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