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Transfer speed

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:45 am
by nwp
Whats the difference between the speed of transferring text and binary data to the browser.I meant
suppose x secs are required to transfer 100 KB of text
and y secs are required to transfer 100 KB of binary data
now whats the relation between this x and y.
sometimes you might see that your ISP is saying that your surfing speed is 256 Kbps and download speed is 30 kbps and Upload speed is 6 kbps.
now is there any relation between these

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:20 am
by neel_basu
Its a ratio of 8 as when you are transferring binary data its going BIT wise and when you are transferring textual data you are sending characters and each character(data type char in C / C++) is 1 Byte
and 8 bit means 1 Byte
so

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speed of text transfer = near_about(speed of Binary transfer * 8)
and here 256 / 8 = 32 thats near about your download speed 30 kbps
I meant one is Kilo Bits and another is kilo Bytes