Confused someone please explain this to me----

Essentially yes.

mega as in 1,000,000 or 1,048,576 (depending on how the software is written). milli would be 1/1000. bits, not bytes.

That's megabits as in millions of bits per second, the maximum speed of

this is the speed of the wireless connection to your router

this is the actual speed of data xfer, much lower than your wireless speed because you don't own a 54Mb/s broadband connection (I assume) and anyway very few sites could upload at that speed.

lower-case m is milli, you want a capital M for mega.

its merely illiterate - it hsould be 54Mbps Mark McIntyre

So 54Mbps = 6.75MB/sec. Actual throughput on WiFi-g (I believe) is half, so at best, you'll get 3-3.5MB/sec transfer speeds.

Depending on the siting of your clients and router, interference will reduce this rate, as will encryption.

OK, let's try this again

Just signed up for wireless (the only provider in town) and doing some research on what to expect. I was told by the provider that I could expect downloads of 64KB and connect at 512Kbps. This looks much MUCH slower than the numbers I'm seeing here and certainly doesn't look "high speed" altho it's a lot faster than my current dialup connection of 44Kbps and 4.8KB. Am I reading/calculating this right? If so I sure don't seem to be getting much for $600 startup fee and $49 a month :o Monica

----- Original Message ----- From: "__spc__" Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Confused someone please explain this to me----

Is this your only internet option, I see the cox part in your email address, you can't get a cable modem?

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

Yes it is and no I can't.