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Sephiroth · 11-12-2009, 16:57

Reading this forum,. you'll see that there are national speed issues where e.g. 20 Mbps crashes to below 1 Mbps. So your 10 Mbps looks good in that light.

I'm on 20 Mbps and rarely get that - hovering between 8Mbps and 15 during the day and 3Mbps and 7 at peak time. I'm not complaining.

I always multiply by Bytes by 10 to allow for the red tape that accompanies packet transmission. The Windows calculation doesn't take the overhead into account but it is part of the capacity you are using.

So, IMO you ought to sit it out and watch the forums. The problems you'll really hit are to do with uploading and gaming (if that's what you do). There are upstream difficulties that spill over into reduced downstream behaviour.

Does that make sense?

11-12-2009, 16:57	#2
Sephiroth Wisdom & truth Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: RG41 Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400 Posts: 12,932	Re: Engineers Working-alternative ways of finding out Reading this forum,. you'll see that there are national speed issues where e.g. 20 Mbps crashes to below 1 Mbps. So your 10 Mbps looks good in that light. I'm on 20 Mbps and rarely get that - hovering between 8Mbps and 15 during the day and 3Mbps and 7 at peak time. I'm not complaining. I always multiply by Bytes by 10 to allow for the red tape that accompanies packet transmission. The Windows calculation doesn't take the overhead into account but it is part of the capacity you are using. So, IMO you ought to sit it out and watch the forums. The problems you'll really hit are to do with uploading and gaming (if that's what you do). There are upstream difficulties that spill over into reduced downstream behaviour. Does that make sense? __________________ *Seph.* My advice is at your risk.