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Originally Posted by Gareth
Using your logic, Paul, maybe we should all ditch broadband and go back to 9600 baud dial-up modems?
I see it as progress. It has to start somewhere, and eventually it will spread elsewhere. Admittedly, it's not always much use being an early adopter, but someone has to do it.  |
I think Paul's point is that if you are on a link faster than a couple of megabytes, you really don't see faster downloads from it. Even where a site is on a fast link. they may limit the bandwidth to individual users.
TBH, I think he is right. At work, I am on a link that is extremely fast, and most of the time, I really don't notice the difference between than and the 1.5 Meg link at home.
Not sure how the faster link would affect P2P and bittorrent as I cannot use these at work (they are banned, and blocked at the firewall), but in my experience, the limiting factor for speed on those appears to be at the server end (by server, I mean the machine serving the file you are downloading).