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Before I switched to cable I had dial up with a decent 48K while at the same time, on the other phone line in this house my husband could not get better than a 26.4K or he got booted. DSL was not deployed out where I live so I tried to get the other phone line upgraded to newer phone cables, but had no luck so we just switched to cable.

Now my direct connected PC states it has a 100M connection while this PC is on a 54M wireless adapter and shows it has a 54M connection. My husbands laptop generally runs around a 52M connection.

I also know someone who had dial up with a pitiful 26.2K connection until he gave up and switched to cable. Now he too runs about 54M.

So I think it varies from people who have nothing better available other than a dial up connection all the way to . . . whatever.

I'd like to point out that the 100Mbits you're seeing from Windows is the rating of your ethernet adapter. Same with the wireless. The speed you're actually getting between your house and the rest of the Internet is entirely different.

http://speakeasy.net/speedtest

As for me: 3Mb/512Kb DSL, upgrading to 22Mb/5Mb cable tomorrow