On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Ed Vance wrote to Tom Walker:   
      
      
    EV> The TW ad says the fixed price is for a 2Mbps plan, which I divide   
    EV> by 11 to get 181.8 KiloBytes/Sec. including the Start, Stop and   
    EV> Parity Bits per Byte.   
      
   broadband speeds are measured in decimal... divide by 10 to find the   
   theoritical limit... actual usage will generally be less due to processing   
   overhead as well as the amount of other traffic on the wires...   
      
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