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Old 02-18-2008, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by st0nedpenguin
You get the advertised speed if you're within spitting distance of the exchange, further away = higher line attenuation, higher line attenuation = slower sync speed.

If you're talking cable then local contention becomes an even bigger issue.

Some day you'll realise that the majority of the UK can't sustain advertised speeds on high speed connections.
I am on cable so get the full speed... But if it has such bad contention issues, why every time I run speedtest.net I get downloads of over 3.5mb/s - for a 4mb/s line not bad huh.... I have never had performance issues...

From the experience I have the 10mb/s service will handle a piddly 5mb/s service with ease...

As to server side contention, that's what multicasting is for..
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Originally Posted by st0nedpenguin
And you're not grasping the fact that a 5Mb connection dosn't download at speeds of 5Mb/s.
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