Thread: uploads at only 1 kb/sec!?
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Old July 2nd, 2006
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Originally Posted by gghhjj
(i only have a 512/128 connection)
ISP's advertise their speeds in kilobits/s (Kb/s), Limewire shows speeds in kilobytes/s (KB/s). There's 8 bits to 1 byte. So 128Kb/s = 16KB/s. Some bandwidth is used for overhead, so 8KB/s isn't as bad as it sounds.

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