On a perfect line, in laboratory conditions, it'll be perfect. But your home and telephone cables are not perfect. All speeds are an average of many downloads and tests. Server load, net delays, packet switching jumps, all contribute to delays. If you were to track the speed second by second, it would go up and over the advertised speed at times, then drop below. As I said, it's an average. Besides, there's not much difference between 1.472 Mb/s and 1.5 Mb/s. None that you'd notice anyway.
If you want a solid 1.5 you need to get a fully digital setup like a T-1 at 1.544 Mb/s both directions.
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I have Bellsouth DSL ultra and it cost $32.95 dollars and it pose to go up to 1.5Mbps/246kbps is that fast. BUT i good a scan of how fast my internet going and it saids upstream speed 256 kbps and downstream speed of 1472 kbps. If i have ultra then why its not the same numbers as above? I sorry but its all confusing all those different numbers. Is Bellsouth a giant ISP?

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