| 1.3mbps download speed on an 11mbps connection? I have 12mb Uverse DSL at least that's what is advertised. I have speed tested it myself at 11mb-down 1mb-up so I know its working close to advertised speeds. Problem is when I am downloading on my pc which is Wired straight into my modem I am unable to download any faster then about 1.3Mbps. I tested this by running my torrent software and a separate game download, if I run only one it peaks at about 1.3Mbps if I run both it pretty much splits 1.3mbps in half between the two. My question is why am I only able to peak at 1.3Mbps on an 11Mbps connection?? |
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 jimkyleBtrieve GuyPremium
join:2002-10-20
Oklahoma City, OK
kudos:2
 ·AT&T Southwest
| Are you sure that's 1.3 megaBITS/sec rather than 1.3 megaBYTES/sec? an approximate 10:1 discrepancy between the bits and bytes figures is normal, and the abbreviations are so close as to be confusing. Bits is kb/s and bytes is kB/s. Most downloads are measured in bytes, while speed tests report in bits...
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Jim Kyle |
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| Service Description::Download speed up to 12 Mbps
So I'm guessing that is 12 Megabits since 12 Megabytes would be 12 MBps? |
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| although very confusing I guess my connection is right on point as far as download speed?? so 1200 KB/s is 12Mbps"megabits" which would be 150MBps"Megabytes" 8 bits is 1 byte? or am I just completely lost? |
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 wayjacPremium,MVM
join:2001-12-22
Indy
kudos:1 | You should first check the modems sync rates |
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| Downstream Sync Rate (kbps) 11998
Upstream Sync Rate (kbps) 1021 |
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| reply to blakerab
said by blakerab :although very confusing I guess my connection is right on point as far as download speed?? so 1200 KB/s is 12Mbps"megabits" which would be 150MBps"Megabytes" 8 bits is 1 byte? or am I just completely lost?
Disregard most of this post :P
My main question at this point would be is 1200 KB/s accurate for a 12Mbps connection? I mean its fast to me.. But I just thought it would be faster.. |
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| yes on the 12mbit IPDSL package you are refering to, you will top out at about 1200 -1250 Kb/s download speed. |
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| Ah dang. Well thanks for the help anyways.. |
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