Internet is one of the technologies that have changed the world, his current whereabouts are needed by many people in the world. Many people are addicted to the internet. As if the world without the internet is the apocalypse. Addiction is opening up new markets, the internet service provider known as ISP (Internet Service Provider) in my ICT book at first junior high school. Today competition among ISPs was getting crazy, especially with the mobile broadband. One of the factors which determine consumer choices on ISP is speed.

Massive campaign carried out by the ISP in order to get more customers and dominates the market, even sempar happen competitors dropping ads, advertisements of this kind is not healthy. From a variety of ad many misguided people about the speed offered by the ISP. I belong to one of them, but at the beginning of college I get information about the speed of data transfer that makes me understand the true meaning.

I take an example that I use smartfren service, he offers download speeds up to 3.1 Mbps. With that kind of speed, download speed we may just get in the range of 300 - 400an KB / s. Why? Is this a public deception? Maybe some people will feel cheated by ads like this, but what is offered by the ISP is not wrong. Maybe we were wrong understanding of what is offered by the operator.

Much different Mbps and MBps. Mbps stands for megabits per second, and MBps is megabytes per second. 1 byte = 8 bits. Megabyte file size is usually used, whereas for data transfer Megabit. So if the maximum speed is 3.1 Mbps ISP offered, then the maximum speed that we will get is 3.1Mbps / 8 = 387.5 KBps. So if offered Rev B speeds up to 14.7 Mbps is the maximum speed of about 1.8 MBps 1837.5 KBps.