DSL Advertised Vrs. Actual Speed

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Originally Posted by sonar732

Ok...I'm with the local telephone company's DSL package. It's not SBC or Ameritech...small town potatoes company Kingdom Telephone Service. They advertise 4mb download...I'm averaging 2.6 at best.

Is there a standard percentage that I should get as I'm not going above 70%? Makes me mad because I got the perception from tech support that I should be happy with what I've got.

Thats not bad. Most sites throttle you by the way, so it may not be your company. You will also lose a certain percentage to overhead. Not that much overhead though - more like 5%.

Find a local site that does speedtests. The farther away, the worse because that means it needs to take longer hops.

Try here :

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

-S