Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid> writes: >A newbie question. I am in Australia. I have an ADSL broadband connection >with something like 256 Kb/s transfer rate available, but the best I can >get is about 27 KB/s. Sometimes I strike a server with a higher rate. That is the same rate. There are more than 8 bits per byte (overhead, etc) (B=byte, b=bit) >I am told that with satellite, only one direction is at the satellite rate, >the other way is at my line rate. All adsl has different rates upbound as downbound. Higher rate coming in than going out, usually by a factor of 10. >Where is the bottleneck? >Doug.