What speed is home broadband?
Home broadband can be anything from 40 to over 1,000 times faster than a dial-up internet connection. Broadband ISPs quote maximum download speeds, but your home broadband service will almost certainly be slower, particularly at busy times. Broadband data transfer speed is measured in Kbps (kilobits per second – one kilobit is 1,000 bits) and Mbps (megabits per second – a megabit is 1,000,000 bits). Most broadband packages have ‘up to’ speeds of 8Mbps, though up to 20Mbps is becoming increasingly common and some fibre broadband services are capable of delivering up to 100Mbps.
