How fast is 464 kbps?

[sdifox]

You yuts. I was downloading from a bbs at 192 CPS. As in characters per second.

 

[yottabit]

it could create confusion if someone did not know that you cannot divide a bit.

m means milli, M means mega.

I approve of this graphic

 

[zCypher]

464kbps is 464 kilobits per second, or 0.464mbps (megabits per second). In today's world, that's very slow. Back when such a speed would be considered fast, the internet and its applications/services were pretty different. A 464kbps connection during those days would serve you quite well. Nowadays things are much more media-rich, and a higher throughput is required to maintain a good user experience for that.

But for the most basic stuff, it would work just fine. Email, instant messaging, google search, loading of basic websites that aren't heavy in media content, streaming radio, streaming low-quality video, etc.

What will hold you back even more than the low speed with the satellite connection is the inherent latency. And that will definitely manifest itself as a lag or delay from the time you request data to the time you see it appearing on your end. Still pretty cool though.

 

[ninaholic37]

You yuts. I was downloading from a bbs at 192 CPS. As in characters per second.

Isn't a character a byte? Even they were smart enough not to use bits!

 

[sdifox]

Isn't a character a byte? Even they were smart enough not to use bits!

it was what the bbs software decided to show.

was dowloading distro floppie sets. :whiste:

had a 2400 bit per second modem then. And a dedicated phone line for this baller :whiste:

 

[Tombstone1881]

Why still 8 bits in a byte in a 64-bit world?

Because octal is easier to translate than hex times four?

 

[ninaholic37]

Why still 8 bits in a byte in a 64-bit world?

Because octal is easier to translate than hex times four?

Maybe easier to memorize 256 ascii characters than 1.84467440737e+19 lol

 

[SparkyJJO]

The speed of Sprint "4G"

Not really, my Sprint 4G is far faster than that.

 

[Ichinisan]

Isn't a character a byte? Even they were smart enough not to use bits!

Yeah. A character is at least 1 byte.

That means "192 cps" is at least 1,536 bits per-second (or 1.53kbps).