Speeds don't seem right.

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Speeds don't seem right. #8

Closed cBlank closed 11 years ago

cBlank commented 11 years ago

Let's compare the speeds:

Facebook: Labor: 1024Mb / 20s = 51.2Mbps Liberal: 1024Mb / 1638s = 0.625Mbps

iTunes: Labor: 2048Mb / 16s = 128Mbps Liberal: 2048Mb / 655s = 3.127Mbps

Youtube: Labor: 200Mb / 4s = 50Mbps Liberal: 200Mb / 320s = 0.625Mbps

Dropbox: Labor: 300Mb / 4s = 75Mbps Liberal: 300Mb / 478s = 0.628Mbps

Umm, did I calculate that wrong or something? why are Liberal speeds as low as 0.625Mbps when you state 25Mbps on the site. I'm not in support of Liberal or anything, I just think it should be a fair comparison.

beefsack commented 11 years ago

A few points of confusion in your calculations:

Facebook, Youtube and Dropbox are all uploads and not download, which are rated at 400Mbps and 5Mbps respectively for Labor and Liberal.
You are confusing bytes (B) with bits (b), and 1B = 8b. For example, Facebook is 1024MB, which is 8192Mb, which calculates to ~400Mbps for Labor and ~5Mbps for Liberal.

danielnitsche commented 11 years ago

I agree, I'm assuming that the calculation says that 5mbs is 80 times less than 400mbs. If you divide the labor figures by 80, you get the liberal figures you've used.

beefsack commented 11 years ago

It'd probably be worth someone else verifying the rest of the values before closing off this issue, I verified the Facebook values myself but didn't check the other three.

danielnitsche commented 11 years ago

Also, it might just be me, but I've never seen a Dropbox upload at anything near 75mb/s. In fact, I don't think I've even seen about 500kb/s.

cBlank commented 11 years ago

Ok, thanks for clearing that up.. this is related to #3 then, 1000/400Mbps isn't really going to be a typical speed any time soon.. whereas 25/5Mbps is (making it a bit bias).