How many kb/s in a meg?

[The Simps]

Currently with BT for my broadband on an "up to 8meg" connection. I'm now moving over to Sky as it will save me a fortune!! The sky package gives me "up to 2meg" as they said they estimate my line is currently only making .5meg download speed. I've done a test on speedtest.net and it says 5604 kb/s download & 349 kb/s upload.

Anyone care to translate for me and comment? lol

[CoolTiger]

5meg download ur getting off bt

[mowgli]

1024kilobyte = 1megabyte

[twin40s]

5604kb = 5.47266meg

[Jack]

Bear in mind you will never get the quoted speed, so 5.5Mb on a 8Mb line is quite good.

[CoolTiger]

Bear in mind you will never get the quoted speed, so 5.5Mb on a 8Mb line is quite good.


im on a upto 8meg line and i barely get 1meg but i do live in the middle of no where

[The Simps]

so what Sky have told me then is just crap to get me to sign over as it looks really cheap. They've even put it into a letter stating the estimating I'm only getting .5mb.

cheers for your replies.

[Jack]

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/

is a handy site for finding out info about what services are available to you, and what your exchange can do, as well as how far you are from it - remember, distance affects speed. At home I get 1.5mb on a 2mb line, but my new home will only be a 1mb line as its further from the exchange :(