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Default Telephones and networks

The Natural Philosopher coughed up some electrons that declared:

Andy Champ wrote:
Jerome Meekings wrote:
Having 100gig fiber that gets a real 38 to 45gig and three computers on
it I find that I can use all that I have. So I am not sure where your
information is comming from.


Having a link at work in the low 10s I normally find that the limit is
the web site at the other end. Many of them seem to be T1 (1.5mbit) -
although the Beeb and Micro$oft go pleasingly fast.

Andy

The main sites that do downloadable stuff are a LOT faster than
that..linux and other software downloads are generally as fast as my
link allows.

And I noticed a DISTINCT improvement when I went from a 10Mbps
hub/router to a 100Mbps switch for talking to the 'office server'


He was talking about 100 gig, not 100 meg.