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Originally Posted by patchwork
I must also point out that since my upgrade to 3Mb my connection hasn't been too good at all, I'm not getting full bandwidth speeds when I want them and its also disconnected half a dozen times, even those cheapo ADSL services do better than that LOL.
I've also noticed 8Mb ADSL and ADSL2 is comming soon, what will NTL do then, double the bandwidth and half the quota's.
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The fact that your line is capable of 3meg does not mean you will get it - there is a lot of network between you and most sites you will visit - and you will not be the only person trying to download stuff from a server. Many servers themselves are only on 2, 5 or 10 meg links, so more then 3 or 4 people trying to pull stuff from them and you are not going to get full speed.
An 8 meg line is almost completely pointless - there a few servers in the world that could sustain that speed to more than 1 or 2 simultaneous downloads, even assuming the network inbetween is capable.