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Originally Posted by OpenLoop
My comcast cable connection advertises 4.0Mbps and i get up to 450Kbps on Windows and 600Kbps on Linux (don't ask me why but it has to do with the tcp stack thing)
But it also depends on the server you're downloading from
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8 bits equal a byte right?
Well if that's the case then this could explain the seemingly false advertisments.
4.0Mbps=4.0MegaBitsPerSecond
~450Kbps may be rated in bytes instead of bits.