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Okay, I have been trying to figure this one out and for the life of me I just can't:
Well the basis of this is, I currently have a 1.5M internet connection, I know I am dying to upgrade it too. :( It's slow and anytime I do anything on the internet it slow to a crawl.
So I am am also an audiophile and I love me my sound quality, I also love my Pandora. So I decided tonight to upgrade to pandora one because I am sick of that 40 hour limit. I did not know that it it also included a 192kbps audio upgrade. This made me very happy.
So I started up my snazzy new pandora one desktop app and start listening to music, I notice that I am getting a lot of halts in playback. So I think it's just my fabulous connection loading the song, so I give it a second to get it started... Well, while it was doing that I attempted to get on here to codecall and I saw that my network was not doing anything at all so I thought that it may be the network it self, so I restart it.
After restarting it I am allowed to browse so I am happy again. After this I fire up my super pandora one app again... My network goes dead, so I go to speed test and attempt to speed test with and with out the pandora one app. With out it, I get my full 1.5M speed, with it I can get .10MBPS if I am lucky.
What I cannot figure out is how that 192kbps translates too ~1400kbps.
However when I come back out of high quality to low quality, I get a speed test at ~1.35MBPS... wtf?
Also while we are on the topic of internet speed, why is it that your download speed is 1/10th of the entire connection speed, and then upload is 1/4th the speed of your download? The numbers seem very misleading.
Oh and yay for signature test! :P
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Posted 06 February 2011 - 09:02 PM
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Especially in North America, ISPs often list their download/upload speeds in megabits per second, remember one bit is 1/8th of a byte. This is actually fairly common use of terms when talking about server/backbone speeds, so your 1.4mb connection will translate to roughly 187.5 kilobytes per second download, now you will see the correlation between the audio quality and why it is shuddering on your connection!
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Posted 06 February 2011 - 09:04 PM
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Ewwwwww. Darn you North America and your special number systems.
Thats it! I am going to the metric system! >: (
Thats it! I am going to the metric system! >: (
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Posted 06 February 2011 - 09:06 PM
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That is the SI/metric system! :), well, in multiples of eight as it is binary. (1024 instead of 1000 which is metric)
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Posted 06 February 2011 - 09:07 PM
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Oh.
Well then I am going invent the number system that is not misleading.
APOX ON CONFUSION. <3
Well then I am going invent the number system that is not misleading.
APOX ON CONFUSION. <3
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