Unlimited Fibre 38 - max speed.

If I have an 'Unlimited Fibre 38' product and my router shows:

Upstream Downstream

Line Rate 8,272 40,035
Actual Net Data Rate: 8,247 39,973

Am I doing a little better than I might expect?

Looks about right for a 40/10 based offering. Your upstream is 2 Mbps short though

Vodafone sell it as Unlimited Fibre 38. It has just started working.

The 38 in the product name is taking into account the overheads, so product connection speed has a maximum of 40 Mbps, but for sales purposes they state 38 Mbps.

How about sync rate at 42Mbps and get 40Mbps capped. Or sync rate 84Mbps and get capped at 80Mbps would be nice.

Irrelevant to posters original subject, if you want to debate product development/dreams then a thread of your own is best.

Thank you, I did wonder if the M is 1,000,000 or 1,048,576?

As it's measuring throughput rather than a quantity it's 1,000,000.

It is the quantity of bits transferred in a second! Using 1000 rather than 1024 makes the quantity number bigger which appeals to marketers, especially hard disk manufacturers.

In broadband speeds and connection speeds 1000 is used, as does our speed test

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

It is the quantity of bits transferred in a second! Using 1000 rather than 1024 makes the quantity number bigger which appeals to marketers, especially hard disk manufacturers.

You are confusing speed tests which measure flow rate, where 1K = 1000bps and 1M = 1000K, (at least reputable ones do), and file download managers that report the number of 8-bit data bytes downloaded per second. When talking data sizes 1K bytes is 1024 bytes as file storage is all based on powers of 2 for efficient handling on spinning disc.

Because you are told file sizes based on 1024 the download managers report in the same way so you can relate the speed to the amount you are waiting for. When you want to know your bit-speed per second then working with base 1000 is more comprehensible. We all know that 16 x 1000 = 16000, but what proportion of the population know 16 x 1024 off the top of their head?

Only geeks like us.