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[Freethinker]

I have a T1 at work. And it seems slow at times. But that is compared to my Cable connection at home. (Which costs a magnitude less). But Cable speeds are not constant. I am fortunate to be on a node which is not heavily loaded yet. In a network that is fairly new with a massive fiber to node deployment. I know of Cable in other areas that at times is no better than Dial up. While the T is dedicated and gauranteed.

An internet connection, no matter how fast the connection to your location, is often ultimately limited by the ISP's infrastructure. Many ISP business models are based on % of over subscription. They will guess that some limited percent of their total customer base will be d/ling at any one time. 10/1 was a popular ratio. I have seen local ISP's sell full T's to multiple customers are very low prices. To find out that they themselves only had ONE T to the net themselves.

Then the other side of the question is how fast of a connection the server you are trying to access might have.