ADSL Speed

ADSL - The Speed Advantages

Just imagine downloading CD quality music, playing real time games or downloading and transferring multi-media in the blink of an eye.

Internet Guys Digital Home ADSL makes all this a reality.

It's superfast and gives you access to the Internet at speeds that make traditional 28K or 56K modems seem like dinosaurs.

To give you an idea of the speed, imagine transmitting all 857 pages of Herman Melville's book Moby Dick.

Internet Guys Digital Home ADSL could transmit this quantity of data in around 2 seconds.

A standard 28.8K modem, the most common way of accessing the Internet, couldn't even transmit three pages in the same time! Internet Guys Digital Home ADSL is not just fast - it's superfast!

Now have a look at the speed comparison figures below.

Download speeds:

File Size	PSTN Modem		ADSL Speed
-------	28.8kbits	56kbits	256kbits	1.5 Mbs
150kBytes	42 secs	21 secs	4.7 secs	0.8 secs
8MBytes	37 mins	19 mins	4 mins 10 secs	43 secs
32MBytes	2 ½ hours	1 hr 16 mins	16 mins 40 secs	2 mins 50 secs

(It is important to note that the speeds indicated are line speeds -- Internet access will incur some additional overheads which may result in downloads which are marginally slower than these.)

To give you an idea of how handy this can be:

• a floppy disk contains 1.44 MB
• a four minute MP3 music file contains about 4 MB