Am I Getting A Super Good Internet Connection?

[partington]

I have a fairly naive question, prompted by being up late and downloading various (very legal) things on torrents.

I'm in Bangkok, on True, on what is supposed to be a 6Mb/s broadband connection. Over the past few days I'm able to download popular well seeded torrents at speeds around 900kB/s, that often spike up to 1.05MB/s or so.

This seems incredibly good to me, and also from my near negligible knowledge of these matters, impossible. If my connection is nominally 6Mb/s, shouldn't I, at absolute optimum, only be able to download 1/8 of this in kilobytes/s (kB/s), ie 750kB/s!!??

I'm getting movies around 750MB in 15-20 minutes!

How is this possible? is any one else getting these kinds of speeds from True in BKK, or have they connected me up to an accidentally super fast connection?

[lomatopo]

I think the obvious answer is that True have provisioned your line for a downstream data rate greater than 6 Mbps, either by accident (easy to do) or on purpose, for some customer service reason. You can check the date rates in your modem/router typically.

I think this True line is supposed to be 9/1:

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin (dB): 24.9 9.4

Attenuation (dB): 7.0 2.2

Output Power (dBm): 10.6 13.7

Attainable Rate (Kbps): 26708 1230

Rate (Kbps): 10597 1154

[partington]

I think the obvious answer is that True have provisioned your line for a downstream data rate greater than 6 Mbps, either by accident (easy to do) or on purpose, for some customer service reason. You can check the date rates in your modem/router typically.

I think this True line is supposed to be 9/1:

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin (dB): 24.9 9.4

Attenuation (dB): 7.0 2.2

Output Power (dBm): 10.6 13.7

Attainable Rate (Kbps): 26708 1230

Rate (Kbps): 10597 1154

Good idea--just had a look at router. Wow, am I really getting 17.5Mb/s?

Don't understand how this has happened, after signing up for 6Mb/s, but I'd better take full advantage before they switch it off again!

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin: 9.1 22.0 db

Line Attenuation:1.0 0.4 db

Data Rate: 17512 1199 kbps