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Originally Posted by allyano  Hi Community People, I'm a NU-BEE too to this site and also to clearwire AND to the bewildering jungle of acronyms etc....
I guess since I have a clearwire modem 1MB I am a prisoner to their service but Im still trying to determine is it a bad service or not???
I live in Rathmines Area, recieved the modem yesterday and when I downloaded off of the Microsoft Site it was saying (Saving to My Folder.... Rate of 60Kbps/sec) then the strength gradually went up and down!
Can somebody tell me what I should expect in terms of my download rate or do I have pretty good service right now!!! Im neutral at this moment! I was not blown away with the speed but it did the job  |
Hi allyano
Can you check your download speed again and see if it says 60Kbps or 60KBps.
You see speeds are measured in two ways either Kilobits per second [Kbps] or in Kilobytes per second [KBps]. There are 8 bits in a byte so 60Kbps equals only 7.5KBps. On the other hand if your speed is 60KBps this equals 480 Kbps.
Confusing, I know but as a rule of thumb a good connection should give you about 85% of the rated speed on the service. Thus a speed of 850Kbps or 105KBps is a good result for a 1Mbps package.
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