| So you have done your test and you know your | | | | would around 700-000Mb, although the DVD quality |
| speeds, but what do those digits actually mean? | | | | ones can be in the Gb's (Gigabytes). If you want to |
| Broadband speed is measured usually in Megabits per | | | | game online- World of Warcraft is the most popular |
| second. This is usually abbreviated to Mb, Mbps or Mb | | | | online game but also games like Splinter Cell are widely |
| sec. These are all the same thing. Its important not to | | | | used- then you can expect to download between 4 |
| get Mb's (megabits) mixed up with MB's (megabytes) | | | | MB and 40MB an hour. Keep this in mind when you |
| as MB's are about eight times as big as Mb's. If you | | | | are selecting your broadband package as many |
| download anything you will notice that file sizes from | | | | service providers will limit downloads. For some people |
| things like music and movies are measure in MB's. | | | | 2GB a month is plenty to browse with, however if you |
| Dial up internet is so much slower than Broadband that | | | | are gaming or downloading then you should look at a |
| it is measured in Kilobits per second. This is usually | | | | higher limit. Otherwise your speed may be capped by |
| abbreviated to either K, Kb, Kbps or Kb/sec. There are | | | | your provider once you have exceeded your limit. For |
| 1000 Kilobits in a Megabit. | | | | instance if you have a 20Mb connection you may find |
| So some useful things to know are roughly how much | | | | it capped to 512Kb once over the download limit. Other |
| big downloads can be-for instance a single music track | | | | providers will charge per Mb downloaded in excess of |
| would be around 4MB and an album would be | | | | your cap. |
| anywhere between 40MB and 5MB.A feature film | | | | |