[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Robin Sheat]

On Monday 21 January 2008 20:05:03 Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I think that the 2Mbps is a *maximum* that you can get under ideal
> conditions (eg distance from the exchange, quality of line come into
> it). Most people get less than that - many a lot less than that.
The maximum for an ADSL line is something like 8Mb (I think). An average line 
should be able to reach 2Mb quite happily. For example, I'm currently 
connected at 7616 Kbps, although the actual rate I get depends on things like 
the time of day (as apparently Telecom is quite bad about over-committing 
their DSLAMs).

However, I think the real issue behind the speeds is a confusion over bits and 
bytes, as others have mentioned. The speeds mentioned sound about right for 
that to be the case (i.e. 2Mbit is 2,000kbit, and 2,000/8 is 250kB, which is 
exactly what was described)

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