IT know how?
When you take out a broadband package you will sign up to a deal that may offer you upto 8Mbps.
Remember this means Megabits and 8 Mbps = 1 Megabyte = 1024 KBps = 8192Kbps.
Remember that 1 Megabyte (MB) equals 8 Megabits (Mb) equals 1024 Kilobytes (KB) equals 8192 Kilobits (Kb).
Therefore a 2Mb connection should equal 256kbps download.
So, in theory you would expect from an 8Mb connection to download from the Internet at speeds upto 1024kbps!
But you find you are only getting something like 70mbps. What's going on? Your ISP will tell you that the website you are downloading from is slow, or your computer is accessing data in the background, e.g. Antivirus programme. What is actually happening is that your ISP has oversold the capacity they can provide and are now throttling back everyones connection.
If you would like to check your broadband speed, please click on this link:
For more information on this course click here to contact us.