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The contention ratio refers to the number of people who share the connection with you. A typical contention ratio is 50:1, which means you could be sharing your connection with up to 49 people so a 8Mbit/s connection could end up being as little as 160Kbits/s. BT has stopped quoting contention ratios for some time, and we list it here for information only.
