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Originally Posted by zitianaki
most definatly worth it. i got the 8Mb now i am 2.2km away from exchange and i always get full download speed, maxes out at 960kbytes which is perfect.
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Really?
Considering that the 8Mbit is actually about 7.2 once the ATM overheads are gone I think there's a little over-enthusiasm there.
The 8Mbit refers to the ATM rate, there's about 10% that has to be lost in ATM headers, not including the IP headers, PPP overhead, TCP overheads, etc, so 800+kbit of that 8Mbit won't even touch your network card / PC, let alone be usable!
Fastest UKOnline download I've seen is about 860, most sustained I've seen is around the 820-830kB mark, which is about right. No-one can get near to 960 it is quite literally impossible.
I really hope you're not going to say to me 'you must be wrong because that's what I get' it isn't and we both know this. 8Mbit cable you'd see 960, 8Mbit (ATM rate) DSL no chance.
Is a regular speed.
6.7Mbps, about 1.25Mbps lost in overheads, about right considering the NDO test does a slight overestimate, claims my 2Mbit DSL can do 239.7kB/s which it can't, best it does is 235 or so.