On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:21:22 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 15:29 +1030, Tim wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:44 -0500, William Case wrote: >> > If the DSL setting is wrong how do I determine if its 128, 384 or 512 >> > KPS? >> >> You don't know what plan that you're paying for with your ISP? For a >> non-technical approach, compare your bill with the plans they advertise. >> For a technical approach, look at the configuration of your modem (read >> it's manual for how to do so). > > I know. Me and my cable company have not been friends for a long time. > I have Rogers cable Lite Hi Speed Internet service. Their brochures > claim 1 MBps. I have never seen anything remotely close to that. > That's mega BITS per second. If you use things like gkrellm that tell you the speed in BYTES then you need to divide by 8. So you should see something like 1000/8 = 125 kilo BYTES per second. You should believe your gkrellm or whatever system tool you're using.
