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I'm pretty sure because it does reach 20mbit in the day and in the evenings if I haven't downloaded anything else. It's quite good for those situations. Say i haven't downloaded anything at all, and then I need to download a 1gig file or something, it whizzes down very fast, even in the middle of the day. The problem is just that once I reach the limit, the speed really takes a beating, and it does this for most of the day. I think it sometimes stays around 5mbit, but I think a combination of them limiting that, and the upload being limited too, can cause the connection to become saturated and it just ends up being very slow, and for some reason, some things are especially slow or just don't work at all, like the MSN gaming zone which I like to use sometimes.

I'm sure it's a good connection for some people, but for me, because I send and receive large volumes sometimes, I don't really get much benefit from it, compared the the 2mbit connection I used to have. Overall things might be a bit faster with this connection, but I preferred being on the 2mbit and knowing I wasn't paying much. Or ideally, I would prefer to be on Sky or Be Internet and I would get close to my 20mbit (or faster) without the very harsh traffic shaping.