For instance, most websites are served via T1's. This means you will not be able to download content from them any faster than 1.54Mbps, regardless of if you have a 2Mbps connection or a 10Gbps uber pipe.
That may have been true five or ten years ago, but that is no longer the case. Most are now connected at speeds of 10Mbps or higher. -- --- Eleven years of carrying The Clue Bat...