Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:14, James Knott wrote:
Danny Sauer wrote:
I've got a full T1's worth of bandwidth to my house. It's fast (and a bit of an involved story)
Why a DS1 (proper term for T1)? It's only 1.544 Mb/s. My cable modem runs 5 Mb/s down & 800K up. Many DSLs will also give better performance, than a DS1.
--James, who never thought he'd see the day, when a DS1 would be considered "slow".
And herein lies the fallacy, your download speed does not as much depend on what your ISP provides you but what the ISP of the site you are downloading from provides. Does not matter that you have 5 or 10 Mb/s down if the site you are connected to can only provide 1 Mb/s up.
Assuming there's no bottleneck elsewhere, my 5 Mb download will be faster than a DS1. I have often seen downloads at 620 KB/s, which is very close to the maximum 5 Mb/s my cable modem is capable of. There's no way a DS1 could do that.