For a 2 mbps braodband line what should the download speed be. Or for a 512/256 kbps

2Mbps you should see about 220 - 240kbps. 512 line = 50-60 kbps.

basically take your speed (2048 for a 2Meg line) and divide by 8. The shave off a few k due to overheads etc.

So does that mean any speed line divided by 8 = to the bytes it can download  per second...

If it's anything like what I see in the UK, a 2Mbps broadband connection can have anything from 1Mbps to about 1.5Mbps download speed, and 256Kbps - 512Kbps upload speed. For a 512Kbps line, I would expect download speed to be between about 400 - 500Kbps, and upload to be 56 - 128Kbps.

You can never achieve the actual reported connection speed because there are overheads everywhere in the network.

Matthew
-tigermatt

pretty much.

Sorry, read the question wrong. To convert bps to bytes per second you do have to divide by 8 since there are 8 bits to every byte. So divide whatever the reported download speed in Kbps is by 8, and you will get it in KBps per second. The large B denotes 'bytes' - a small 'b' denotes bits.

Matthew

Say my internet broadband speed is 256 what should the download per second be?Its just 33bytes/sec is that normal

Assuming it's 256Kbps, then 256/8 = 32Kilobytes per second.

you got it. 256 divided by 8 = 32

Looks like we're both posting at the same time this afternoon! ;-)

Which only shows that the 2 of us should really get out more! ;)

Particularly on a lovely sunny day like this in Devon!
Oh well, someone has to keep EE ticking over!

Guys sorry to say but a little confused still on how we can get the speed.
how do i know that the speed provided to me is correct?
Like i have 2 mbps line and its downloading the data in the right speed.
example : Like should it download 1 MB per second?

Thanks to you both

You're very welcome - broadband speed calculations are a nightmare!
:-)