at least it's not dialup... and i guess i shouldn't expect anything near gigabit speeds in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.
>>2
You do realize that 1 Megabyte per second is 8 Megabits per second, right?
Steam, for example, measures download speed in Megabytes per second (MB). Speedtest measures in Megabits (Mb).
>>3
Yes. Working as a software engineer, I am quite aware of this fact.
>>2
shortly before running the test, i was downloading some things with bittorrent and seeing speeds around 4.5MB/s.
the ISP with a monopoly where my parents live does that sort of shitty thing, but apparently comcast in detroit just doesn't give a flying fuck about throttling.
>>4
Okay, just checking. No need to be defensive.
I'm a network engineer and many people, even intelligent ones, confuse the two.
>>6
Fair enough.
>>5
Interesting. I'm in a duopoly in a larger city than Detroit, but for some idiotic reason the other half only offers internet as a triple package, two thirds of which I don't need or want. I'd think such a large potential customer base would prompt better response, either from one side or the other.
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