High Speed Internet Speed Comparison

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Cox Services (High Speed Internet)	1 MB Photo	5 MB Song	600 MB CD
Premier (up to 20 Mbps) with PowerBoost ^TM	under 1 second	3 seconds	7 minutes
Preferred (up to 12 Mbps) with PowerBoost ^TM	1 second	5 seconds	11 Minutes
Value (1.5 Mbps)	5 seconds	27 seconds	55 minutes
Economy (768 Kbps)	11 seconds	53 seconds	107 minutes

[What is this Kbps and Mbps stuff?]

Upload/download speeds are measured in bps, or bits per second.

A bit is a single character (letter, number, etc.)

Kbps (Kilobits or Kb) is about 1,000 characters per second.

Mbps (Megabits or Mb) is about 1 Million bits per second.

A dial-up modem runs at a maximum speed of about about 53 Kbps (compare this to our slowest speed of 768 Kbps!).

Other Companies' Services	1 MB Photo File	5 MB Song	600 MB CD
AT&T DSL (up to 6 Mbps)	2 seconds	6 seconds	12 minutes
Dial-up (+/- 56 Kbps)	2 minutes	11 minutes	22 hours

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* Times shown are rounded to the nearest whole number.

File sizes are measured in bytes; 1 byte = 8 characters (letter, number, etc.)

KB (Kilobyte, or 'k') is 1,000 bytes, or about 8,000 characters.
MB (Megabyte, or 'meg') is 1 million bytes, or about 8 million characters.

A typical mp3 format song is 3-5 MB, whereas a typical e-mail is only about 15 KB.

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