wmrcomputers said:
Indeed - which gives a theoretical maximum download speed of 1.28 MB/s or 1280 kb/s.
With 9.13 Mbps you're looking at 1141 kb/s.
Providers like to confuse matters by giving you nice large figures, it would seem.
Data is usually referred to as units of bytes, kilobytes (1024 bytes), megabytes (1024 kilobytes), gigabytes (1024 megabytes) and so on. Bytes, however, are made up of bits. There are eight bits in a byte. Therefore 1 byte = 8 bits, 1 kilobyte = 8192 bits, 1 megabyte = 8,388,608 bits.
This is where megabits comes into play. When you subscribe to a 10 meg service you are subscribing to a service theoretically capable of transferring 10,240,000 'bits' of information into your computer every second. 10,240,000 'bits' divided by 8 is therefore a maximum of 1,280,000 bytes or 1,280 kilobytes per second.
When providers say 'upto 8MBps' what they mean is the technology is there, providing you're the only user of the network, and are sat within a few feet of the server which you are connected to. In reality, physics comes into play.
I hope this is of some help
In short though, to work out your download speed from the information you provided, simply divide by 8; 9.13 Mbps / 8 = 1.14 Megabytes per second.
And from that I'm guessing you're on virgin 10MB