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To: KneelBeforeZod
I wonder if you can download a 20 meg file in 1 second on DSL off their backbone.

nope, you can't.

this was a good test for whiners who said their DSL was faster.

of course with all the hops and traffic on the internet, you'd never get anything close doing real world surfing

Nope and you can't do it either with your cable connection as the total bandwidth offered by cable systems is 5 meg per second. You only get this if you are the only one on the segment at the time.

My DSL offers just over 1 meg per second and it is there all the time and is very reliable. I doubt that it will offer a total of 5 meg per second anytime soon but I don't run the risk of sharing the bandwidth with as many as 50 other people either.

43 posted on 04/24/2003 4:49:47 AM PDT by RAWGUY
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To: RAWGUY
yes you can download 20 megs / second off the backbone.

you must have missed the whole point of my post. I worked right downstairs from the NOC.
62 posted on 04/24/2003 11:26:37 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod (Deus Lo Volt!)
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