Line speed figures are a bit miss leading really.. Loads of factors ivolved, distance to exchange & number of people connected to same point as you are, are the biggest factors. While you may be close to an exchange there may be nearly 100 people connected to the same node as you!!
Really i wouldnt expect more than 6meg at an OFF PEAK time from a 8meg account, and thats only download speed. Upload speeds for sending files/mails etc are maybe gonna be 500k at most.
We have a low contention ratio (25:1) service here in work, and we are just in range of the exchange to get 8meg and it never gets above 6.6meg download and 600k upload.
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