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There is a minimum speed guaranteed for most home subscribers but that is a fraction of dialup speed. Home routers do latency profiling to have a better connection stability; meaning even if you do not fill bandwith, all your requests will be delayed to smooth out until the buffer completely fills.

In most operators, limited bandwith users are oversubscribed and unlimited bandwith users are linked to dedicated channels. Oversubscription ratio is around 20:1 for DSL and 100:1 for mobile here in Turkey.