DSL performance evaluation

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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Are you sure your upspeed is 384Kilobytes though? They used to have a $60 plan that was 1500 down but only 128 up... that was unacceptable to me.

I may very well be wrong on this, but 1500Mbps/384Kbps down/up refers to 'Mega bits' and 'Kilo bits', not 'bytes'. Double-capitalization on the acronyms MB and KB indicates bytes, whereas single-capitalization such as Mb and Kb indicates bits. Naturally, bits are never mentioned in any advertising anywhere, and most laypeople casually use terms such as Megabytes and Kilobytes when they are in fact getting bits.

Not that it'd matter, but they are exaggerating by a factor of 8. On Verizon's DSL ad pages, they advertise how you are given 10MB of web space, and up to 1.5 Mbps/128 Kbps (or 384 in your case) of DSL throughput. Note the capitalization. Thus, you are in fact only getting 188Kilobytes/48Kilobytes. (you referred to 384kilobytes in your post)

Feel free to correct me, though: DSL would become a lot more attractive to me if you were right.

The misleading advertising (shown <a href="http://www.verizon.com/ForYourHome/dsl/learnmore/NLF_DSLVsCable.asp">here</a>) on Verizon's pages was quite amusing though (nothing to do with connection speeds).

Quote:
'Use existing phone lines for phone or fax and Internet?
DSL : Yes
Cable Modem: No'

Strange, that.

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