How much faster than a modem is Eastserve Broadband?
The useable speed of Eastserve Broadband, and indeed most other broadband services, depends on a number of factors: mainly on how fast the underlying connection is, and what the users connected to the system are doing at any particular time. Each user will share an 11Mbps (11 million bits per second) access point with a number of other users. Standard dial up modems only connect at 56kbps (56 thousand bits per second – theoretical maximum, more typically 45 thousand bits per second) so you can see that the broadband connection is considerably faster. On our Gold service, you should be able to consistently download data at between 400 and 500kbps (kilo bits per second) over the network which is about 10 times faster than a dial up connection.
