David Wei wrote in a message to Moderator:
 DW>  Okay everyone... recently my ISP switched to X2 support (after
 DW> hearing me  bugging the hell outta them... :) ) and origionally I
 DW> dialed into the USR  modem pool and gets 31,200bps, and now the max
 DW> I ever achived is 46,666bps  (saw it ONCE, no more), and 50% of the
 DW> time it is 45,333 bps and the  other 50% are somewhere between
 DW> 45,333 and 42,000... is this normal? have  anyone ever gotten to
 DW> around 50Kbps??? and yeah, my download speed up quite  a bit... IF
 DW> and ONLY IF the remote server is not too busy... otherwise it  is
 DW> the 2400bps all over again...
Your results are quite normal.  I have a couple of friends who get 50,666 or 
higher speeds on a consistent basis.  Both live within a few hundred metres 
of their telco switch.  At 50,666 you can wait so much faster though. ;-))
Regards,
       David
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