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|  [DSL] Kind of confused...please help me
Ok, I have a 1mb/s dsl connection. Every speed test I run seems to reflect this. However, every time I try to download something regardless of where I download it from the fastest speed I can download at is 128 kb/s. The results seem to be the same even when I portforward a program like Utorrent or Steam. I still maintain a 128 kb/s download speed. I just want to be able to utilize at least 1/2 of my bandwith I feel like I am being ripped off by my internet connection. Please HELP me! | |
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Irish Shark
Play Like A Champion Today
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-29
Las Vegas, NV
| Re: [DSL] Kind of confused...please help me Downloading from a site has many factors that can influence your download rate. How busy the site sever is, the route that the data travels from you and to you, routers dropping packets and then they have to be retransmitted, etc ...
Are you using a router? If so take it out out of the loop and see the the speeds change. Also, if the router has QOS settings make sure that it is turned off.
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| Lassc
join:2008-02-29
United State
| This might be a little silly, but do you mean you're downloading at 128 Kb/sec, or 128 KB/sec? Notice that one of those is capitalized and one isn't? That's because they're different things. Kb is kilobits, which is what your DSL provider advertises their speeds with. Those are not the same as kilobytes (KB), which is what you'll see in a web browser's download window. For example, I have a 1.5 Mbps (that's megabits per second, not megabytes) connection, and my download speed is roughly 150 KBps (kilobytes per second). If you check out the calculator on this site at »/calculator, put in 1 Mbps under Speed, and hit the 'Calc' button beneath it (I think it works without other values), you can see that you'd get about 121 KBps (KB/sec) with your connection. 128 would be excellent.
I can't see the tweak test you linked, so I can't tell whether this is the case. If this isn't the problem, and you are indeed downloading at about 128 Kb/sec, my bad, disregard this post. If you were getting only 128 Kbps, you'd only be downloading at... what... 20 KBps? Since my upload is 384 Kbps, and that's a bit less than 40 KB/sec That would be REALLY awful. It just seemed that 128 sounded about right if you had accidentally made this mistake (it IS pretty confusing, believe me). And, certainly, that would be better than you REALLY being throttled so much! | |
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