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>"Justin Johnson" <justinwjohnson@gmail.com> wrote in message
>: "PhilÅ" <iclgateway@hotmail.com> wrote in message >...
>: > AOL no limit £19.99 PCM with free adsl modem
>:
>: Thats only 256K Though, which is not proper broadband in my view,
>: despite the fact they claim it is.
>
>For what it's worth, Justin, I agree with you - 256 Kbs is not broadband.
>Although £20 a month without a download limit isn't too bad, I have used AOL
>and never would again! (Almost every aspect of AOL is non-standard and
>therefore, more difficult to configure. Also, see how difficult it is to get
>AOL off your system!)
>
>I got this from uk.telecom.broadband:
>
>From: Terry Eden (me@privacy.net)
>Subject: Re: 2GB Capping and XBOX Live
>
>Newsgroups: uk.telecom.broadband
>Date: 2004-05-15 00:22:37 PST
>
>luigi wrote:
>
>Well, you could try to work it out. On 512Kbps ADSL, the max data transfer
>you could get downstream per hour is
>~225 MB (512Kbps * 60sec * 60min / 8 (bits in a byte) / 1024 (KB in a MB)
>and upstream
>~112 MB
>
>Total transfer of 337 MB
>
>So, if your XBOX was going full tilt, you'd use up your data allowance in ~
>6 hours.
>
>Of course, your XBOX probably doesn't go anything like that, but you might
>want to check out on an online gaming forum just what data transfer you can
>expect.
>
>Terry
>
>
>So Terry really gives me a good pointer... Though the question of
>'through-put' was raised elsewhere. I understood that a 5 GB limit (for
>instance) referred only to downloaded data. If the uploaded data figures in
>too - which would be significant for gaming - it might be I'll have to got
>for a 512 Kbs option.
>
>More searching then!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>