>>Specifically, the user can download megabytes or gigabytes of games, music, pornography, girls or whatever, without additional payments
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>Did you really say that ?

Well, the idea is that you can download whatever you like. Sorry if I offended anybody by hinting that this might be abused <g>. I don't know where the word "girls" came from - I can't find it in my original message.

>Anyway, what I now hear is that (obviously ...) there is a difference between speed and broadband here. So, in order to use ADSL commercially, there is some broadband involved too. Whereas Ethernet may be looked at as "more speed = more broad" for ADSL this seems to be some different. "Too thin" I hear.

Oh, right. The 256 Kbps we are contracting is a theoretical maximum. At peak times, when many people use Internet, the actually available speed can decrease by a factor of 4-6, according to the vendor. No specific minimum speed (that is, really available) is guaranteed in the contract.

In an Ethernet network, when several computers are connected through a hub, the bandwidth may get reduced, too, since any network traffic reaches all the computers.

>Question : What are very speedy downloaded ladies showing up in parallel ?

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