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All broadband services are offered with the understanding that service is subject to a contention ratio. In effect it means your service whether it is 0.5 mb, 1.0 mb or 2.0 mb is "shared" with others.

The normal contention ratio for domestic services is 1:50. So in theory, at the busiest times, your service could be the equivalent of 2.0mb/50= 40k/sec!

In reality you'd be very unlikely to be in that position. Also bear in mind that the site from which you are downloading will itself have capacity limits.

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I work for BT as a Corporate tech support agent (I am really far too qualified for the job but bills to pay yada yada), I work with the business network mostly but I thought I would share my knowledge of ADSL Max contention since it is no longer measured as a ratio. Basically your throughput rate is determined by 2 factors, your line capability (determined by Signal to Noise Ratio which is affected by line length and quality as indicated by our BT engineer friend) and the limits set on it by the B-RAS which can also limit the throughput you get based on congestion on the network.

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