Why is my cable connection so damn fast?

[JackWilson]

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I have a cable modem through comcast. I am now getting in the neighborhood of 700K to 800K per second download speeds. That's kilobytes, not kilobits, which means about 6 megabits a second, doesn't it? How can it be that fast?

I'm paying $45 per month including tax and such, and I thought this only got me 4 megabits per second at most.

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600 kilobytes = 0.6 megabytes

kilobyte = 1000 bytes

megabyte - 1,000,000 bytes

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lol...this is a very funny post if read by someone who actually knows what's going on. I think it's been pointed out before, but you know there's a difference between bits and bytes right? The OP referred to the number of megabits compared to kilobytes.

8 bits = 1 byte. You do the rest.

P.S 600 KB != 0.6 MB either [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[WildDan]

My home Optimum Online cable allows me 10 Mbits/second and I'm paying the same as you.. what're you so thrilled about, you should be complaining [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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600 kilobytes = 0.6 megabytes

kilobyte = 1000 bytes

megabyte - 1,000,000 bytes

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This is hilarious.