160kbps DL speed. Bum deal or reality?

[jwlkr99]

I've had Bellsouth's DSL for about three months now and the fastest I've ever downloaded at was 160kbps. From reading other articles, people are upset that they are only downloading at 600 and 700kbps? I have used every tweak and I'm using dl accelerator to no avail. It's the same in win98, winME, and win2k. If anyone has any input I would greatly appreciate it. I kinda fell like it's not worth paying the price for the speed I'm getting.
Thanx,
Jeremy

[jwlkr99]

Nevermind I answered my own question. I relaized that when I looked at dl accelerator, it was giving the dl rate in kilobytes not kilobits. I'm at the right I guess, unless someone has another suggestion

[HQH51]

For DSL, remember this: What you pay for is what you get. Since the following post after this original one said that it was in KB/s, then I'm guessing that you have a 1.5 Mb line running through your place. So, if you ordered a 1.5 Mb DSL line for your place, you will only get up to 1.5 Mb, but no more than that. That's how DSL works.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jwlkr99:
I've had Bellsouth's DSL for about three months now and the fastest I've ever downloaded at was 160kbps. From reading other articles, people are upset that they are only downloading at 600 and 700kbps? I have used every tweak and I'm using dl accelerator to no avail. It's the same in win98, winME, and win2k. If anyone has any input I would greatly appreciate it. I kinda fell like it's not worth paying the price for the speed I'm getting.
Thanx,
Jeremy</font>

[glc1]

jwlkr99:
160KBps (kiloBYTES per sec) = ~1.3mbps (megaBITS per sec)

So, if your download cap is 1.5mbps, your getting what your paying for, when taking transmission overhead into consideration.