Explained: Understanding Internet Speed 

I'm embarrassed I never knew this until now. Thank you for the clear and beautiful explanation!

Babbling boolean dude you explain everything soo well I am sensing that your channel is going to trend. Just keep the number of uploads up.

yessss... finally.... someone who actually emphasized the 'b' and the 'B'🙏👍... wat u said in the video is very very true...a lot of people still don't realise the difference between the bit and byte symbols.... great video man...kudoos..👍

You explained this concept like I have never seen. Thanks a million!

7:08 How did you get 47 minutes for 50GB? Is it an estimation? When I used a calculator I got 44.44, in other words around 44 minutes.

So very well explained. Thank You👍

I showed this video and the linked video to my parents & they understood "Internet" faster than me explaining them from 15 years Great video 😌

... nice video, you might add though that once you divide the value Mbps with 8, the resultant value now becomes MBps (i.e. 12.5MBps) which is in byte, essentially converting bits to byte much like feet to meters... cheers

thanks for this very useful videos!

Thank you very much , i understood it better than other people ,❤👍

Thanks so much. This is really helpful

Thank you so much for making this video you’re my new best friend

Good video, I had no idea about this and now I learned. Thanks man!

Great vid, thanks.

Why didn't I found this channel before? It's a must subscribed channel for tech enthusiasts. 👏

Sorry if this is a dumb question 😅 should g and m be capital or the casing doesn't matter?

"Let's pretend I'm an average person" 🤣

can someone please explain the calculations to get 47.43 secs.. the last example with calculating speeds and time it takes to download

Thankyou I am electronically challenged…..you made it easy to understand! Helps me pick the speed with my internet server…HmmmI’m 79 years young You can teach an old horse new tricks!

I work for an internet company and had noooooo idea what I was talking about 4 months in.

I feel very very educated hearing this today 😂😂... Am even embarrassed.. I now know better when subscribing to ISP bundle.. Cheers 🥂

Here is someone who has never used the internet at speeds greater than 1.5 mbps. Even getting 5 mbps is a pipe dream for me and yes, I live in the US, in the hills of Appalachia.

appreciate it

I have never clicked the subscribed button this fast

You missed out on the confusing part. People are going to ask how you get minitues when the others are seconds. They gonna ask do I divide 50 by 18.75? You could’ve broken it up more to simple terms to eliminate questions cause that last part you didn’t explain and it can confuse people

Brooo a legend

Good Job. I need to understand why my internet is not constantly the same. Being the ONLY SOLE user. So I'ved watched all your videos over a week span. I have fibre connected. Devices such as Desktop PC and PS Console are connected via ethernet. Mobile phone is the only device that connects to WiFi. Over a few months I've captured screenshots of the low internet speeds at various times around the clock. If the internet had to be water. the pressure of the stream would go up and drip drip drip and go up.....I wondered if electricity would run from the internet.... how everything will just shut down some random server had to be restarted in some part of the world. my ISP is a well established ISP. could others have the same problem. could it just be shitty ISP issued router?

Not sure if you’ve gone a video on how processor and network card configurations affect speeds yet, but as a ISP installation technician I find customer purchase speed that their hardware isn’t designed to handle. About 80% of the time in commercial and residential settings they have 10/100 hardline cards or they have a 10/1000 card that isn’t configured properly. I’ve even seen customers with Gigabyte speed tiers with wireless cards that only transmit on 802.11e on a b/g/n modulation on only 20mhz. Putting rocket fuel in a “Geo-metro” won’t make it go any faster.if possible could you do a video on hardware optimization?

Question: for the last problem; did you mean 44.44 minutes or did I do the math wrong?

1 Gigabit/ sec = 1GB/ 8 seconds 1 Gigabyte/sec = 1GB / sec

Lets say you buy 1000mbps, and you run speed test why is it only 100metes max scale on the speed test? Not 1000?

To the creator of this video take all your social thoughts and anxiety and just trash em, Great video btw 🎉

Fk all this time the higher the number the faster 😂 thank you!

Wow seems like it's intentionally deceptive because if it says 500 megabits per second download it should be 500 megabits per second download the only reason that somebody made a standard of 8 seconds is to make it deceptive cuz 500 Mbps should be 500 megabits per second per second

osm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn are you working out

Lol dell? You mean bell 😂

There's a lot of ways people misunderstand internet speeds. I used to work as a cable technician for WOW internet and cable. Many customer will call in for technicians to come by because their bandwidth that they are paying for is not measured to what they expect. While the results is what it is, that doesn't mean close to what the customer is thinking. Speed results may come from connection physical link(s). Network interface devices and types. Wireless is always slower than 802.3 TIA copper standards. Wireless 802.11 types. Servers! Host devices! Services! Metrics of routing. Routers and or switches. Network settings and configuration, such as adaptive QoS or prioritization! Number of host receiving the broadcast. etc. The speeds your paying for is the throughput between your router into your isp connection router. The higher that throughput goes the more traffic can flow through the leg.

Mistake #1 Its not speed, its bandwith. Speed is distance/time Bandwith is data/time Mistake #2 the advertised bandwith is your connection to the main hub and isnt guranteed. If the server across the country is only good for 10mbps, then your gig plan will be limited to that 10mbps #3 Wifi is the enemy. You'll likely only see around 30mbps on 2.4ghz wifi. Stop speed testing smart tvs and ps4's and bitching #4 fast ethernet is eneny is number 2. It caps out at about 90mbps real world. If your device or router is cheap or really old, a gig plan wont help you

As usual, stupid advertisement Complain the speed about 5 years then realised

dude your thinking is complicated, just say that byte is 8 bits and the rest is obvious

awsome man, thanks