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Old 07-05-2004, 20:35   #399
Chris W
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Re: [Merged] NTL Increasing BB Speeds

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Originally Posted by Pem
While that may all be true, the fact is that NTL & TW seem to use a factor of 1024 for download speed.

My 1 meg is set to 1024000 - on the 600k service I believe they are set to 614400 (perhaps someone could check for me).

Oddly, they do seem to use 1000 for upstream - so mine is set to 256000.

Check the TW site - the simple fact is they quote it as 750k.
ntl upload speeds are factors of 1000 eg 64000, 128000, 256000, as are the 150k and 600k downloads... for some reason the 1mb is 1024000... don't ask me why but that is just the way it is
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