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Originally Posted by Ignition
1,024,000 bit/s, 2,048,000 bit/s and 3,072,000 bit/s are the new caps.
This should deliver 120-125kB/s per Mbit.
One byte is 8 bits, no more no less, and 1Mbit is 1,000,000 bits. The extra is a historical thing put in there to account for TCP/IP overheads a bit.
Chances are it won't require a modem reboot, modems will be made to resynch and acquire the new speeds.
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Hard disk manufacturers and comms companies usually use whatever definition of k and M that gives them the bigger number, but when you format your harddisk the available space is much smaller!
Memory manufacturers usually use the more 'computer science' correct
1 byte = 8 bits
1 kbyte = 1024 bits (= 2^10)
1 Mbyte = 1024 kbyte = 1,048,576 bytes (2^20)
so
I'm sure you know better than me what the ntl config file will say - I'm looking forward to finding out what definition of 1Mbit NTL use (but I still expect a million bits which is consistent with 10/100 Mbit Ethernet definition I believe). And yes my 8.5 bits per byte is an approximation to allow for packet overhead and other losses, for a precise value see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...html#kilobytes