Strangely what I have noticed that many people dont understand that the speed as it is adv. 256kbps is Kilo Bits per seconds not Kilo Bytes per seconds ; so when you download the speed that you get KBPS is kilo bytes; Thus when you are downloading at 32-35 Kbps on broadband 500 plan thats good speed and does add up to 256kbps (kilobits) ; Dataone 500 is actually giving 32-35 KBytes/second on a well tweaked PC.
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