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Originally Posted by cookie_365
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DSL speeds are measured slightly differently from cable speeds.
Fastest usable data throughput you'll see on Be or any other 24Mbit ADSL2+ service is around 21.5Mbit/s download and 1.1Mbps upload.
In the interests of fairness though and by the same token you're unlikely to see 10Mbit 24x7 on cable, already some Telewest customers who have been upgraded to 10Mbit have reported seeing less than 5Mbit most of the time with the odd spike into the 7Mbit territory.
Being honest if I have a choice between ADSL2+ and cable if I'm close enough to the exchange I'll take 2+ every time. My 21.5Mbps would be aggregated onto a gigabit, whereas cable you're dealing with a 10Mbps slice of 38Mbps, the statistical contention works much better on DSL2+ as the contention point is further down the chain.
Anyway isn't this conversation about ntl?
