Originally posted here by XoN-ASSIM
I agree with isabyon. My connection here at home is 4.5megabit or 4500kilobit but in the download windows the most I have ever gotten is 500kilobytes a second. Heh my ISP does get pissed off at me when I overload ther crapy servers by having to many open connections at once... I like hoging bandwidth when I need it but most of the time I dont so what the heck I'll just take the average
sorry but 500kbytes is very fast for a cable connection and still good for a 4.5 megabit connection. Like Isabyon explained -> 1byte is 8bit. So to calculate your maximum theorethical speed (which means you have no loss at all on the lines and no congestions) you do 4.5 x 1024kbps = 4608 and divide that by 8 -> 4608 / 8 = 576
So your maximum download speed from you to your CMTS is 576kbytes.
If you get 500kB that means you still have 500 x 8 = 4000kbps or 4Mbit. This speed is 86,8 % of your line speed, this is very good. I don't think many ISP have this kind of ratio's for their users.