Quote Originally Posted by Ynot View Post
scraping away all the marketing blather ("meg / sec" is not megabytes....)
a lot of it has to do with the contention ratio (ie. how many people are sharing your connection)

you may have bought "2 meg broadband", but all that means is that the cable carries 2 mbps

you will probably be sharing that speed with 10 other households in your road
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Unless it says so in the fineprint (and for a low speed like that, doesn't sound likely) it actually means you can get 2 Mbps to (or rather from) the nearest station, and from there there's a x Mbps connection for y users.
2 Mbps sounds like it's a dsl-variant, if so then you definately have your own cable to the closest station, since it's the pots-cable.