How fast is 464 kbps?

[olds]

Is that dial up speed?
4.64 mb?

 

[drebo]

Unless the B is actually supposed to be capitalized, it's about 1/10th of 4.64mbps.

I.E. slow.

 

[_Rick_]

It's 464000 bits per second, therefore around 8 times more bandwidth than high-speed dial-up connections, and can also be expressed as 0.464Mbps or less than half a Million bits per second.

 

[inf1nity]

It's "okay", if you don't anything really intensive. Forums and text based websites will open decently fast.

Large images and videos >360p will be slow and buffer.

 

[PliotronX]

The speed of Sprint "4G"

 

[sdifox]

Is that dial up speed?
4.64 mb?

0.464 mbps

 

[SlitheryDee]

Do you mean kbps or KB/S?

KB/S would be something like a 3-4mbps DSL connection
kbps would be a .464mbps dsl connection.

 

[_Rick_]

0.464 mbps

No meters are involved in that equation. Capital M to distiguish please!

 

[olds]

What I posted is exactly how they wrote it. And it's satellite.

 

[sdifox]

No meters are involved in that equation. Capital M to distiguish please!

I prefer to use mbps vs Mbps, that way you know it was not a typo since you could mess up the b :awe:

 

[CZroe]

My first cable modem was a half megabit. That's about the same with overhead.

 

[Rakehellion]

No meters are involved in that equation. Capital M to distiguish please!

He's talking about millibits, or 1/8192 of a byte.

 

[Rakehellion]

My first cable modem was a half megabit. That's about the same with overhead.

And it was FAST! I remember talking to one of my friends who tried out his first cable modem and he was impressed that "I downloaded a 1MB file in about 10 seconds!"

 

[mnewsham]

And it was FAST! I remember talking to one of my friends who tried out his first cable modem and he was impressed that "I downloaded a 1MB file in about 10 seconds!"

and here I am downloading 10MB/s and wishing it was 10x faster...

 

[Markbnj]

It's about 100 times the bandwidth needed for a usable voice connection, or around 6 to 7 times the bandwidth that an average online game requires... and 1/10 the minimum bandwidth your family needs for Instagram, Spotify, and Facebook.

 

[SketchMaster]

http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Units.html

In layman's terms, it's slow.

 

[sdifox]

http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Units.html

In layman's terms, it's as fast as dial-up.

err no dial up is 56kbps.

 

[justoh]

It's about 100 times the bandwidth needed for a usable voice connection, or around 6 to 7 times the bandwidth that an average online game requires... and 1/10 the minimum bandwidth your family needs for Instagram, Spotify, and Facebook.

Thought he said it's sat. So very high latency, hence no games, surely.

 

[SketchMaster]

err no dial up is 56kbps.

Thanks, I forgot how to tech.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Do you mean kbps or KB/S?

KB/S would be something like a 3-4mbps DSL connection
kbps would be a .464mbps dsl connection.

Bingo.

The division by 8 is also useful here.

 

[Red Squirrel]

No meters are involved in that equation. Capital M to distiguish please!

That's for bytes per second. Lower case is bits upper case is bytes.

Dialup: 56kb/sec, or 7KB/sec (divide by 8, 8 bits in a byte)

464kb/sec is like a really slow DSL connection but much faster than dialup. You'll get about 58KB/sec.

 

[BoberFett]

Is that dial up speed?
4.64 mb?

If it's on a fiber connection, it's around half the speed of light.

 

[_Rick_]

That's for bytes per second. Lower case is bits upper case is bytes.

Dialup: 56kb/sec, or 7KB/sec (divide by 8, 8 bits in a byte)

464kb/sec is like a really slow DSL connection but much faster than dialup. You'll get about 58KB/sec.

I was being pedantic about meters (SI "m"), and Mega (and as Rake correctly pointed out milli) -SI prefixes (M/m).

By the way: kilo is a lower case k as well, an upper case K would be Kelvin in most cases.

The m-m ambiguity is really nasty when it comes to compound units such as the Newton-meter, which if it were called the equivalent meter-Newton would be "mN" and indistinguishable from the milli-Newton "mN".

 

[CZroe]

err no dial up is 56kbps.

The USA was limited to something like 53.3k and, for most people, even that was only when the stars aligned.

 

[IronWing]

Dialup: 56kb/sec, or 7KB/sec (divide by 8, 8 bits in a byte)

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