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Originally posted by Dupre
ALSO! there 1mb/2mb cheap service is on a 50:1 contention ratio, which means youll be lucky to get 600k down at peak times, and probably the rest of the time too,
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What utter tosh! At present time there are not enough users in the UK to cause contention issues. BT are not contending anyone on the PVC's.
Contention on ADSL refers to the total bandwidth on the PVC not the bandwidth of your connection. The PVC has a bandwidth of 10Mb and this is what will be contended at 50:1. Even if another 50 users are connected to the same PVC at your exchange (which currently does not happen - only 3 IPS's will share one PVC) you will still get around 20 - 25KBps as worst case would be 200Kb.
It is on the PVC that BT will apply the contention and not between blocks of 50 users.