Digital Lines: OC3 (155MBPS), OC12 (622MBPS), OC48 (2.6 GPS), OC192 (9.6 GPS) Speed of Internet Connections

Speed of Internet Connections


NAME BANDWIDTH BPS HIGHWAY ANALOGY
POTS - 64,000 3 foot garden path
ISDN 2 POTs 128,000 6 foot sidewalk
T1 12 ISDNs 1,544,000 4 lane highway (72 ft.)
ETHERNET ~ 6.5 T1s 10,000,000 26 lane highway
T3 28 T1s 43,232,000 112 lane highway
FAST ETHERNET ~ 65 T1s 100,000,000 260 lane highway
OC3 3.6 times T3 155,000,000 ~ 1 mile wide highway
OC12 4 times OC3 622,000,000 ~ 4 mile wide highway
OC48 (Internet2) 4 times OC12 2,075,136,000
2.4 Gbs/second		 ~ 16 mile wide highway
OC192 4 times OC48 9.6 Gbs/second ~64 mile wide highway
Wicked Network 1.0
Wicked Network 2.0

31337Bo, 31338NB,12345 For Rockwell HCF chips: V.90 preferred (K56flex will still work) +MS=V90 K56flex preferred (V.90 will still work) +MS=K56FLEX Disable V.90 and K56flex, use V.34 (28.8/33.6) +MS=V34
For Apollo (LT Win Modem) and Mars (LT PCI Win Modem) chipsets: Enable V.90 -V90=1 Disable V.90 -V90=0 See current -V90 setting with explanation -V90? in a terminal Enable K56flex S38=1 Disable K56flex S38=0
For Venus chipsets (mostly used in external modems): K56flex only (V.90 disabled) S109=0 K56flex or V.90* S109=1 V.90 only (K56Flex disabled) S109=2 Disable K56flex and V.90 (use V.34) S38=0