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Old 18-09-2005, 11:57   #38
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Re: "Bloke in the Pub" says "Stick with ntl"

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Originally Posted by Paul M
What you (and the people going on about the caps and "you will use it in 5 minutes") keep forgetting, or overlooking, is that it doesn't make a blind bit of difference if you have a 10M/25M/50M or a 1GB connection - downloads will only be as fast as the overall connection speed. If the far end server is on a 2MB connection then that's all you will get (and then only if you are the only person downloading).

In fact, the one time this won't be true is if the file already resides on the ntl proxy you have been routed through - then it will serve you up the file from its cache, and since it's on the ntl network, you should get it much faster (score 1 for the proxies )
If where your downloading from have a half decent upload(which all good servers have) it should be easily achiveable to download at ~1.2mb/s(10mbit).
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