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Pariah

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18. September 2006 @ 17:49

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I have a Pentium 4 with 2GB memory. I am moving and looking at getting new internet service. I can get 1.5m/s for 39.99/month or I can get 3.0 m/s or 6.0 m/s. The provider allows purchase of the 1.5 speed without subscribing to phone service. The faster speeds require phone service. As a phone/6.0 m/s package, the cost is 60.00 per month. I think the packaged 3.0 came to 50.00 per month. Is there much difference between 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 when surfing the net? Does it make a difference with World of Warcraft and other such sites? Is the extra cost to get the extra speed worth it, or is the difference so minor that it would be a waste of money?

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Phantom69

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19. September 2006 @ 03:42

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i wil calculate for you now the approximate speed you will be browsing the net:

1.5 MB/s ~ 150 KB/s
3 MB/s ~ 310 KB/s
6 MB/s ~ 630 KB/s

As you can see there are dramatic differences at the speed you will be browsing the net and how your internet will perform during online gaming and file transfer.

so it is essentialy up to you. As you can see there are quite dramatic differences in speeds.

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elokito

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19. September 2006 @ 04:58

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wait! 1st 1.5mb is 170kb
2nd the online gaming difference is not dramatic if ure gonna play online games from 1.5mb up it would b dramtaic if u had 400kb then 1.5mb

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tailschao

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19. September 2006 @ 07:18

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well, technically it's;
1.5 Mb/s = 187.5 KB/s
3.0 Mb/s = 375 KB/s
6.0 Mb/s = 750 KB/s
becasue internet connections are sold in megabits, not megabytes. So 1.5 Mb (not MB) is 1.5 megabits, and there are 8 bits in a byte, so 1.5 megabits is equal to 1500 kilobits, divide 1500 by 8 and you get your kilobytes rating.
of course, it also depends on how fast the website/server can send you the data, as well as how fast you can receive it.

^^^at least, that's how i understand it...

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Phantom69

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20. September 2006 @ 02:31

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i only postd averages, you usually times the MBps by 1024 then divide by 8 then times by 0.85 to get the browsing speed.

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