just got adsl2+

[anonymous Mac Tech]

if your paying for a 4mgps plan your not actualy going to get 4mgps. there are a number of factors that can alter your speed, for 1, ISPs say what speed you get in bits not bytes so devide by 8 straight away, also line noise and distance from exchange etc influence pcket loss aswell.

Uh yeah! As mentioned I did tech support for the ISP I receive service from. They had always said whatever package they offered be it 4, 6, 8 down whatever was the max speed and not the norm. Granted my package doesn't include any speed boosts like the higher packages do. This isn't DSL so I don't need to worry about distances from the hub. Also granted cable is usually a shared connection to any node, with a node consisting of up to 2000 customers. These speeds I've posted are at all different times of the day and on top of that at my old address, I had the same package living 15 miles away and still had readings with this consistency. Not to mention with two different modems.

As a matter of fact I had seen tests on others service cranking speeds up and down which were way above what they were supposed to be, so...