It's 10:30pm in the UK and I'm getting 1MB/sec on my 10Mb NTL broadband
line! Should be finished in about 25mins....

"Brian Wescombe" <brian.wNOSPAMescombe@ntPLEASElworld.com> wrote in message
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> It's 10:30pm in the UK and I'm getting 1MB/sec on my 10Mb NTL broadband
> line! Should be finished in about 25mins....

Plusnet. 512KB/sec service :-(
Been downloading since this morning, should be finished in 1 hour. lol

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> Plusnet. 512KB/sec service :-(
> Been downloading since this morning, should be finished in 1 hour. lol

It beats 56k!

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"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
> news:u2ZRxhl6GHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
>> Plusnet. 512KB/sec service :-(
>> Been downloading since this morning, should be finished in 1 hour. lol
>
> It beats 56k!

Yep. Doubt I will be able to get much faster.
Still, I am happy with it, its not often I do big downloads.

That (512KB/sec) is 2 seconds per megabyte. The file is about 2.5
gigabytes (2,500 megabytes). should take about 5,000 seconds, which is
only about 2 hours. And, indeed, on my cable modem the download was
showing about 400KB/sec, and it took a bit, but not much, over 2 hours.

My guess is that your speed is 512Kb/sec, not 512KB/sec. Eight times
slower (but still more than 10x faster than dialup).


Beck wrote:

>
> "Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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>
>> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
>> news:u2ZRxhl6GHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>>> Plusnet. 512KB/sec service :-(
>>> Been downloading since this morning, should be finished in 1 hour. lol
>>
>>
>> It beats 56k!
>
>
> Yep. Doubt I will be able to get much faster.
> Still, I am happy with it, its not often I do big downloads.

As a matter of interest, how much does the "10Mb NTL broadband" cost per
month?.


"Brian Wescombe" <brian.wNOSPAMescombe@ntPLEASElworld.com> wrote in message
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> It's 10:30pm in the UK and I'm getting 1MB/sec on my 10Mb NTL broadband
> line! Should be finished in about 25mins....
>

Our cable was averaging around 500KB, but sometimes went up to 560KB, and
sometimes went down to 400KB. Once, I got nervous because it went way down
to 40KB a second and I thought that I was going to lose my connection to the
download, but after two or three minutes, it went back up to 400KB/sec+.
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> That (512KB/sec) is 2 seconds per megabyte. The file is about 2.5
> gigabytes (2,500 megabytes). should take about 5,000 seconds, which is
> only about 2 hours. And, indeed, on my cable modem the download was
> showing about 400KB/sec, and it took a bit, but not much, over 2 hours.
>
> My guess is that your speed is 512Kb/sec, not 512KB/sec. Eight times
> slower (but still more than 10x faster than dialup).
>
>
> Beck wrote:
>
>>
>> "Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
>> news:3D82F27D-EFFF-4406-BE0A-4CD74B6F7986@microsoft.com...
>>
>>> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
>>> news:u2ZRxhl6GHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>> Plusnet. 512KB/sec service :-(
>>>> Been downloading since this morning, should be finished in 1 hour. lol
>>>
>>>
>>> It beats 56k!
>>
>>
>> Yep. Doubt I will be able to get much faster.
>> Still, I am happy with it, its not often I do big downloads.

Show off.

"Brian Wescombe" <brian.wNOSPAMescombe@ntPLEASElworld.com> wrote in message
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> It's 10:30pm in the UK and I'm getting 1MB/sec on my 10Mb NTL broadband
> line! Should be finished in about 25mins....
>

£34.99, with £11.00 for a phone line. With that I get a free basic cable TV
service as well.

"Intel Inside" <REMOVETHISBIT@com> wrote in message
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> As a matter of interest, how much does the "10Mb NTL broadband" cost per
> month?.
>
>
> "Brian Wescombe" <brian.wNOSPAMescombe@ntPLEASElworld.com> wrote in
> message news:d0VVg.6958$aZ3.1907@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>> It's 10:30pm in the UK and I'm getting 1MB/sec on my 10Mb NTL broadband
>> line! Should be finished in about 25mins....
>>
>
>

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> That (512KB/sec) is 2 seconds per megabyte. The file is about 2.5
> gigabytes (2,500 megabytes). should take about 5,000 seconds, which is
> only about 2 hours. And, indeed, on my cable modem the download was
> showing about 400KB/sec, and it took a bit, but not much, over 2 hours.
>
> My guess is that your speed is 512Kb/sec, not 512KB/sec. Eight times
> slower (but still more than 10x faster than dialup).

Yes thats the one, sorry I get my KB and kb mixed up :-)