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How fast is 464 kbps?

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

I.E. slow.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
CZroe said:
My first cable modem was a half megabit. That's about the same with overhead.
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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!"
 
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.
 
Markbnj said:
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.
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Thought he said it's sat. So very high latency, hence no games, surely.
 
sdifox said:
err no dial up is 56kbps.
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Thanks, I forgot how to tech.

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_Rick_ said:
No meters are involved in that equation. Capital M to distiguish please!
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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.
 
Red Squirrel said:
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.
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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".
 
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