Internet Speed Specifics
If you need a fast internet connection for your business you should get a good t1 bandwidth and you can also get a T1 carrier that will be good for your company. A t1 phone line can also help create T1 convenience in the office. With a good t1 company, you should be able to make the most of T1 services and enjoy the fast internet connection that you should have to create a simplistic communicative lifestyle. Bandwidth is the term usually used to describe the amount of data that can be transferred over a connection. Bandwidth is expressed in terms of bits, although it is commonly misinterpreted as bytes.
Most telecommunication companies that offer broadband cap the upload and/or download speeds. DSL companies usually cap their DSL around 768 kbps for receiving and 128 kbps for sending. Many cable companies will cap their internet service to 128 kbps or 256 kbps for sending and around 1.5 Mbps for the receiving speeds.
One benefit of DSL over other broadband solutions is that a DSL connection is dedicated. Although the connection speed may be capped, the connection coming into your household is only used by the computers in your home. With Cable internet, a single large internet pipeline services several homes at once, so that although the capacity for data transfer is larger, during peek hours the actual speeds achieved may be less that then maximum depending on how many users are connecting to the internet at that time.
Bandwidth in bits/sec
Approx. Transfer speed in bytes/sec
8 bits = 1 byte
1 Byte
1000 bits = 1 kilobit
125 Bytes
1,000,000 bits = 1 megabit
122 Kilobytes
1,000,000,000 bits = 1 gigabit
119 Megabytes
The access type is:
Approx. Transfer speed in bytes/sec
Estimated time to download an MP3 (5MB)
Estimated time to download a high quality movie clip (100MB)
Dialup (56 kbps modem)
5-6 Kilobytes
20 minutes
DSL (768/128 kbps)
94 Kilobytes receiving / 15 Kilobytes send
1 minute
20 minutes
Cable (1.5 Mbps/256 Kbps)
183 Kilobytes receiving / 30 Kilobytes send
30 seconds
10 minutes
Ethernet (T1, 1.5Mbps)
183 Kilobytes receiving and sending
30 seconds
10 minutes
Ethernet (T3, 43 Mbps)
5 Megabytes
1 second
20 seconds
