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| Written by HiVoltage |
Saturday, 10 June 2006
In its latest move to stay competitive against its rival OnVol, Maltanet has announced it is doubling the download speed of the subscribers currently on 2048/256 to 4096kbps for no extra cost. This should affect all ADSL users - not only those subscribed directly to Maltanet. So, if you have an 2048/256 ADSL account with Maltanet, Keyworld, NextWeb, IT&T or any other ISP, expect to have your download speed increased very soon. As usual, there is no guarantee you will be getting the full 4096kbps downstream. It all depends on line quality, cable distance from the nearest telephone exchange, etc.
Although you probably won't notice much difference except when downloading files from the Web, a free upgrade is always good. Unfortunately, however, the difference between the downstream and the upstream data rate is always getting wider. We first started with 512/128, having downstream 4 times as fast as the upstream. Now, we will have a downstream speed 16 times faster than the upstream! We wonder whether this situation will ever get better.
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 12 June 2006 ) |
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Posted By Daniel on 10-Jun-2006, 09:18 AM
Posted By gmail on 12-Jun-2006, 06:06 PM
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As regards to down and up speeds, very well said HiVoltage. They always increase the down speed but not up. It's useless especially if you use torrents, the application needs to send a message back (thus uploading 'up') so that you can recieve another packet of data, but if you have crappy uploading speeds you get crappy downloading speed. But as you said ADSL users can notice an increase in speed when downloading from the Web.
Personally I much prefer if they lower the costs rather than increasing the ownload speeds. 