cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

[Brian Cluff]

On 10/28/2015 08:17 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. Of course, what I'd really like to know is 
> what their actual performance is :-) When I was last with TWC, they 
> promoted {10 MB down, 2 MB up} but I never got close to that: IIRC my 
> best TWC home download ever was 1.92 MB/s, briefly, while on a direct 
> wire connection to the cablemodem. And that was on a laptop that 
> regularly did 20 MB/s downloads on my academic network.
I was just reading this and I'm wondering if you are mixing your acronyms.
You said that they promoted 10 MB down and 2 MB up. I'm guessing that 
you meant to use 10 Mb (Megabit) instead of 10 MB (MegaByte) because a 
10MegaByte connection would be close 100MegaBit connection which aren't 
exactly cheap.
Then you said you get 1.92 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) which seems like 
you were actually getting more than you were paying for since a 10 
Megabits/second connection would max out at 1.28 MegaBytes/second under 
perfect circumstances which you will almost certainly not have.   20 
MegaBytes/Second seems a little high but not unreasonable for a good 
academic network especially if they are running a cache.

Anyway, I just saw some potential ambiguity with you acronyms thought 
you might want to clarify....or just say shutup Brian, you knew what I 
meant :)

Brian Cluff