Go to speedtest.net and perform the speed test of your computer.
To get the test going, simply left click on the golden pyramid as it emerges.
Once the test is done, save the web page to your drive and email it to someone as an attachment.
Now open the attachment in your SENT mail.
Click on the bars at the top of the page. MY RESULTS, MY SUMMARY, GLOBAL STATS.
It might surprise you to find that the doc is active. You can fiddle with the data to your heart’s content - comparing your results with the rest of your state, etc., etc.
And so can the person(s) you email it to.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU MIGHT HAVE TO SAVE/OPEN IT AS A GOOGLE DOCUMENT TO GET THE FULL EFFECT.
This is probably old hat to you computer wizards, but it blew my mind.
Are you sure you’re reading the results correctly? If you’re getting that fast a download that’s great but the results from both speedtest.net and dslreports.com is presented in Kb (kilobits) per second.
If I understand correctly, you have to divide the number by 8 to give KB (kilobytes) per second.
Then it depends if you want to be picky and divide by 1,024 instead of 1,000 to get MB per second.
Your conversion calculator link pointed to a KB to MB converter not a Kb to MB. If that’s the conversion you’re using I think it’s wrong. Kilobits (Kb - lower case b) is not the same as Kilobytes (KB - capital B).
When I tested my connection speed at speedtest.net I got a download speed of 12,637 Kbs. Your calculator (Kb to MB) shows that as the equivalent of ~1.5 MBs.
To get a download speed of 2.7 MBs, speedtest would have to give you a result of around 22,650 Kbs.
The converter you linked to uses 1,000 to convert kilobytes to megabytes. Fine, that’s why I had the smiley because a lot of techs use 1,024 kilobytes per megabyte instead of the 1,000 used by hard drive and flash drive manufacturers.
Forget the mega to kilo for a second. It’s the bytes versus bits that was my original point.
Speed tests show your results in kilobits not kilobytes. To go from bits to bytes you have to divide by 8. I’m pretty sure that’s a modem thing. The baud rate was based on bits not bytes.
I wish I was getting 12MBs download. On the fastest sites I can usually achieve a real rate of just over 1MBs.
The confusion is understandable, though – you’re talking about megabits (per second), he’s talking about megabytes, which is the far more widespread unit when talking about file sizes, hard disk space, RAM and the like. On your 2.7 megabits per second line, a file sized 2.7 megabytes would take 8 seconds to download.
Why are you talking about kilobytes per second? If you’re getting 2784 kilobytes per second then you’re running on one of the fastest connections in the country. If your son was getting 9+ megabytes per second then his connection is 40% faster than the fastest connection in the country. (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs at 45444 kilobbits/sec = 5.7 megabytes/sec)
The results on the speedtest site are in kilobits per second, so when your results says 2784 kbps that means 2784 kilobits per second. (2784 kbps = 348 KBps) If they mean 2784 kilobytes per second they would represent that as 2784 KBps. Here’s a link to the speedtest FAQ.
However, it is true that if you put 2784 kilobytes per second into the calculator it is equivalent to 2.7 megabytes per second. The issue is that you aren’t seeing 2784 kilobytes per second on your computer at home. (If you were, you wouldn’t be complaining about it.)
4890 896 … pfft… I’ll try to do a direct connection later on… Currently using an adapter, which connects to router, which is connected to the modem. Also my adapter has a low output max so that is probably the issue.
