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Originally Posted by Titch
Bit's are not to be confused with Bytes.. Bit's are much smaller.. 8x smaller infact. there are 8 bits in 1 byte - so that impressive sounding 3.6 mbits is not even half a megabyte. So yes, it is about 45 to 56 k - aka dial up 
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aren't you getting confused now?
56k was 8 kbytes (although in practice I never saw more than 4k back in the day)
I see 100k downloads on my orange dongle when I do download stuff, but with my 500mb limit I try and avoid that.
3.6mbit is pretty good considering we all had 512kbit ASDL lines at the start of the broadband journey. The upstream is a little poop though.