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Upload speed needed to Skype in 720p

I want to buy an HD web camera to Skype with family and friends. My current laptop cam is terrible, but I want to make sure that before I buy a new cam my connection can handle it. So - what is the ...
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Why does Dropbox upload at only 1/10th of my internet upload speed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it me, or is Dropbox really slow? I have just purchased 50g of storage and am transfering files to go roaming. My internet speed shows as 860kb/sec on a speed test ...
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0answers
191 views

Reading or writing with a 4 WD5000AADS drive RAID 5 array drops to 0 speed

Edit, 10/31: Crash-- complete system lockup. Booted computer, had strange lag for visiting ANY webpage in Chrome.. Figured that either a network problem existed, or Chrome could not write to disk ...
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242 views

What upload speed my internet is supposed to need? [closed]

I am running an Apache and IIS 7 server on my i3 machine and am wondering what upload speed my internet need to serve 5-10 websites to around 1000s users?
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How to get higher download rate than upload rate

i'm using bandwidthplace.com to measure my internet speed. And here it is: Download Speed: 422 kbps (52.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 202 kbps (25.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Can you please ...
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3answers
535 views

Upload of photos from cf card to pc is super slow

I have a new custom built pc. It has 8B of RAM and was working like a dream. Suddenly it is super slow and taking hours to download photos that used to take just minutes. I notice that there is 8GB ...
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3answers
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Upload Download speed difference

When I test my hi-speed, I get (approx>): 9.7 Mb/s download .51 Mb/s upload 8ms ping. Why is there such a disparity between down load and up load?
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Why do dial-up downloads speed up at first?

I've noticed that with dial-up downloads, the download speed at can be several times faster. But I though the fastest dial-up can ever throughput is 53 K. But I've definitely seen speeds over that at ...