Well I paid $16,000 for my van, so I should be able to do 110MPH no matter the speed limit or road conditions!
The ISP I work for can see your cablemodem's upload and download consumption, so expect a letter or some kind of notice if your upload is 1GB or more for a weeks timespan. We have a customer who always called and complained about slow speeds this and that, then we got the tool to check his consumption, and lets just say that the MPAA and the music industry people are "talking" to him. We can also check the consumption for people on the same connection as yours, and see if someone is hogging the bandwidth.
That said, your speed is always an "upto" speed, not guaranteed for residential service. And some people confuse the "download/transfer" speed that Internet Explorer reports versus their bandwidth speed. And never forget, that you are downloading from someone else, or a server on the net, so its always point to point, thus if their connection is slow, your download speed will suffer.
The ISP I work for can see your cablemodem's upload and download consumption, so expect a letter or some kind of notice if your upload is 1GB or more for a weeks timespan. We have a customer who always called and complained about slow speeds this and that, then we got the tool to check his consumption, and lets just say that the MPAA and the music industry people are "talking" to him. We can also check the consumption for people on the same connection as yours, and see if someone is hogging the bandwidth.
That said, your speed is always an "upto" speed, not guaranteed for residential service. And some people confuse the "download/transfer" speed that Internet Explorer reports versus their bandwidth speed. And never forget, that you are downloading from someone else, or a server on the net, so its always point to point, thus if their connection is slow, your download speed will suffer.
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