Yes I know lol. But that's really 13 mpbs ... not 13 MB/s. 14 MB/s would be 112 mbps (subtract losses such as distance of course.)

Quote: The real world - Speed Enemies: TCP has an overhead in transmission that can be as low as 3%, but ATM overhead is more like 10% .. So you can expect to lose 13% of your purchased speed at least when counting application data transfer rate. Making up a rule of thumb here: Given a broadband line speed, dividing by 8 and taking off 13% is a reasonable estimate of the maximum likely data download speeds (in bytes of data) you will manage to get. rogers yahoo hi speed internet (I quoted this a few years ago, I think the page details may have changed since, but is still true.)

OH ... and if using wireless routers ... beware .... they generally are not reliable for heavy bandwidth use. They will have inconsistent speeds, will struggle with too many connections such as bittorrents require, and may even occasionally lose connection. Ethernet/network cables are much more reliable.