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Originally Posted by Chris
Yes, my multiplication above was wrong, but then you are also misreading the words you have bolded. They use a capital letter for K, which denotest that they mean bytes, not bits.
A 56 kilobit modem would be expected to achieve a speed of about 7 kilobytes per second.
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Capital K doesn't mean anything for what's after it, you're thinking of a capital or small B, one meaning bits the other bytes.
They wrote bits, and meant bits. Check Thinkbroadband's Virgin Media ADSL forum for more information from customers who've been hit by the higher strength throttling and are reporting 10kB/s (kiloBytes) download speeds - some even lower.
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Originally Posted by Chris
80kbps is 640K, which is still faster than the first ever broadband service I had, which was 512K.  |
80kbps is 80kbps - are you referring to 80kBps?
Back to the point, top 2% are considerably throttled, as low as 80kbit/s for a week, top 5% (I think) in any one hour during peak times go to 512kbit until midnight.
I have no idea what those thresholds would be to break either of those boundaries, even approximately.
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...ml#post1552513 suggests that 5.9GB in a week is likely within the top 5%.