In my experience, it's only relative to the speed of the server that you are connecting to. I have a 20megabyte (not megabit which is a common misconception) ci

In my experience, it's only relative to the speed of the server that you are connecting to. I have a 20megabyte (not megabit which is a common misconception) circuit but usually can only get 5-8MB of bandwidth on average from the server that I am connecting to. We didn't notice much of a difference when we upgraded from 10MB to 20MB for this reason. We have more pipe to download concurrently but doesn't necessarily mean that the "internet" is going to be "faster"