location to exchange helps?

hi all,
i have btbroadband,and today they upgraded my line to 2mb.
the modem connection icon reports the speed as 2.2mb.
download speeds are great etc.the local exchange is 100 yards
or so from my home,would this explained the 2.2mb?

just curios

"desert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> i have btbroadband,and today they upgraded my line to 2mb.
> the modem connection icon reports the speed as 2.2mb.
> download speeds are great etc.the local exchange is 100 yards
> or so from my home,would this explained the 2.2mb?

No - all BT Wholesale 2MB lines sync at 2.2MB - its to do with overheads...

Regards
Sunil

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:15:24 +0000, desert <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>hi all,
>i have btbroadband,and today they upgraded my line to 2mb.
>the modem connection icon reports the speed as 2.2mb.
>download speeds are great etc.the local exchange is 100 yards
>or so from my home,would this explained the 2.2mb?
>
>just curios
>

No.

The IP traffic leaving your computer is encapsulated in another
protocol, ATM, on the ADSL side of your modem. The extra bandwidth
that you see reported is required to give a full 2Mbps throughput of
IP traffic plus the ATM overhead.

Jake