d/l & u/l Rates

[Dspiz]

hey i am not really a N00b but i am wondering something i have a ADSL connection of 1.5mb d/l & 1.5mb u/l but when i run my ftp it seems to cap out @ about 17kbps when ppl d/l but i remember when i use to use P2P programs like (kazaa, DC, Etc) the rates were faster

Does anybody know anything about these rate caps?

or what ever you wanna call them

Thanks in advance!!

[bojazz]

;D Hi

Well sometimes there is some settings in the ftp server program, where you can choose how much bandwith each logged on user can have.
Try go to the settings and change that limit.

[Dspiz]

well after going though the search engines and many URL's in the World Wide Waste (www)

it seems they use kbps for kilo bytes and kilo bits

so 128kbs upload is kilo bits

transfer rates are read in kilo bytes

since 8 bits = 1 byte

128bits is equivalent to 16bytes (128/8=16)

so the transfer rates look like this

DSL 768 d/l - 128 u/l = 96kbps d/l - 16kbps u/l
DSL 1.5 d/l - 1.5 u/l = 187kbs d/l - 187kbps u/l