[plug] ADSL speed

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, quoth Russ Powers:

> Yeah, that's pretty much how I do it. I usually get about 53kB/s. I just asked
> the question because my brother in the us was accessing my server and he said
> it wa very slow.

ADSL is asymmetrical - your 512kb ADSL will have 128kb outbound
which means your fastest upload speed will be around 15kB/s, although I
found anything over 8kB/s would cause the latency to shoot right up.

 - Matt