• Whats wrong with my internet?
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[url]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1067197756.png[/url] According to this, my download speed should be about 1.5 megabits per second. This is good as thats what i pay for. However, whenever I try to download something, the downloads hit 180 kilobits per second and just hovers there. Why is there such a gap between the two.
Depends where you're downloading from, and you should get a different ISP.
Haha i know. But even when im, for example, downloading a FO3 file from Fallout 3 Nexus, i choose the Dallas server, and thats 3 miles away from me and it still is slow. Any other reasons?
The download rate you get from other severs varies greatly based off the server. Some servers are slow, some are fast. A common practice is capping a user's download rate so that it frees up more resources.
The results shown on speedtest.net are mega[B]bits[/B] per second, not megabytes. When you download files from a server it is calculated in mega[B]bytes[/B] per second. A speed of 1.5 megabits per second is the equivalent to 192 kilobytes per second, you are getting very near speeds you're paying for. Play around with this - [URL]http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?input_amount=1.5&input_units=megabits&notation=legacy[/URL] and read up of the difference between megabytes and megabits.
Another bits != bytes thread.
Usually limited by the server that is hosting the file you are downloading. Also as the poster above mentioned, bits =/= bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so divide your megabits speed (in my speed test.net) by 8 and you get the speed in megabytes
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