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[connectivity] P2P throttling?

That would be about right for your plan.
Check the conversion for mbits to kilobits.
Also are you saturating the upload which would lower your download speeds?

1024 kbs equals a mb. So im not even getting a mb even though I pay for 3mbs.

And no? nothings being saturated im just downloading files and stuff. The speed test shows 2.5mbs download but when I download stuff it's 300kbs.

And im lost? What plan are you talking about?

reply to Junior
The plan you have as you mentioned is the 3mbit plan, and the conversion is KB to MB.

So 3.0 would equal to around 2.53 or so after PPPoE overhead thats what you would end up with.

And anytime you download you upload at least an acknowledgment of receiving the part sent and to continue sending more.

I think we're misunderstanding each other. I know what Kb/s - Mb/s Conversions are. The issue im having is simple. Whenever im downloading something it's no where near my 2.53 that you are speaking of. It's 300 kb/s instead of it being 2,530 kb/s(2.53mbs roughly).

But when I do a speed test I have no issue getting 2.53. Only when im downloading stuff.

For instance im downloading a patch through age of conan. And the download speed right now is 112.32 KB/s

I downloaded an Nvidia driver earlier today that was like 77.7 MB/s and it took like 10 mins at 250 KB/s

Im getting no where near the download speeds I am supposed to. Or that I get when testing speeds.

reply to Junior
Your download speeds are fine.

3 Megabit = 3,000 Kilobits = 3,000,000 bits

3,000,000 bits / 8 = 375,000 Bytes

375,000 Bytes / 1024 = ~366KiloBytes

So your theoretical maximum download speed is around 366KB, but it will obviously be less with overhead and whatnot.

If your speed tests reach about 2.5Mb, then 300KB sounds about right for your connection.

Ex... I have 5Mb Fairpoint FAST internet. My maximum download is around 630KB, which is right on target for what I should be getting.

reply to Junior
Speed test sites measure speed in kb/s. When I had 'at&t Yahoo! HSI', my modem would synch at 3008 kb/s down, and speed test sites would show throughput at ~2400 kb/s down. This is correct, after adjusting for ATM and PPPoE overhead (mostly ATM).

Download software, such as uTorrent, which I use for P2P, registers download speed in kB/s. And in "B=Bytes", not "b=bits". When I checked the uTorrent download speed, my fastest recoreded was 319 kB/s.

When you do the bit-to-Byte conversion math, 2400 kb/s is about the same as 319 kB/s.

Just saying.
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reply to Junior
One thing to check is that the MTU of your computer interface is the same as the router's setting, and for FAST both should be 1492. Mismatched MTUs can cause fragmentation, and sometimes fragmentation causes interfaces to request resends, changes in speeds, or other behavior that can be problematic.

When adding a Cisco smart switch to my configuration I noticed that streaming video from Crunchyroll became intermittent. Checking out my equipment I found that somehow my router MTU and computer MTUs had become mismatched. The switch, which doesn't care about MTUs particularly, apparently reacted to the fragmentation in a way that disturbed the video feed. Fixing the MTUs cleaned up the feed so that interruptions are now rare.

But it is also important to keep in mind that P2P speeds are dependent on the upload speeds of the seeds and peers you are connected to, as well as Bit Torrent algorithms and server controls that may use your seeding history to determine your priority.

kirby