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Originally Posted by acoolwelshbloke
Is browsing the net faster with the new 10MB or is it only faster when it comes to downloads?
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I think there's a point at which it stops mattering, to be honest - obviously if you're on a bandwith heavy website - music clips, movies, flash and the like, it will helpâ₠¬Ã‚¦ but for normal pages with a couple of images, even on 1-2MB you're unlikely to see anything more than a marginal difference, if that. Your browser can also only render so fast!
To put the download thing in context, though - at the moment, a 3MB connection takes around 3 seconds to download 1 megaBYTE (connections are measured in megaBITS). With 10MB, less than a second will hook your 1MB, but this obviously depends on the speed of the server you're connected to. As a rule, commercial sites - Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo etc are connected to mirrored servers, which makes them suitable for maxing out your connection. Personal sites and ones one smaller scales are usually only on one server, so you have to just hope that their ISP's are connected to big pipes.
