On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:22:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

While I suppose it could be possible that my ISP has capped my speed
in order to make sure that it works reliably without wasting time
doing too many error corrections, I believe that my 1.4Mb/s is pretty
much par for the course in my road.

Think yourself lucky you can get 1.4Mbps sync rate. A mile down the road
from here and they are lucky to get 0.5Mbps.

Both are true except is OPENREACH who do the capping unless you are
LLUed

BT do apply a cap that they pass back up to the ISP so that data isn't
fed into the system faster than it can fall out the other end. These
steps are 0.5Mbps once you get above silly slow speeds or at least they
were. I think things on this front have changed recently and the steps
may have become smaller. It was a bit annoying to have a sync speed
50kbps below the next 0.5Mbps step up...

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Cheers
Dave.