Broadband 1mb 6 September 2004 at 7:43PM in Broadband & Internet Access 1 reply 2.2K views

alexuk_4

Hi, if anyone has this speed, is it really good? A friend had this speed, and he said that he cancelled it because web browsing was no different, he only noticed download files etc were faster

LincsLad_3

Depending which sites you visit, you may notice little or no difference between a 500k and 1 Meg connection when just browsing.

For instance, if the site you are looking at is hosted on a "slow" server, then the bottleneck in the system will be the server, not your own connection bandwidth.

Downloading is certainly where the difference becomes apparent but even with my 650k connection, I would hate to have to go back to dialup speeds (< 56k) even when just browsing!!