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6mb/s connection....so why am I downloading at 0.5mb/s

Cathexis
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Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on why this might be?
I am currently the only one on the network at this location and I do not have any other things downloading or client side bottlenecks or restrictions on my system that I am aware of.

(speedtest showing 6mb/s)
Edited by Cathexis on June 10, 2018 3:48PM
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  • nightstrike
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    www.speedtest.net should help here.
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  • TheSwollenBovine
    Are your sure its not 6 M Bits per second instead of 6 megabytes per second? In almost every case net speed as advertised by an ISP is stated in M Bits If you are only paying for 6 M Bits that would explain the slow speed.

    Here is an example of what I mean by M Bits, note here M Bits is written as Mbps - but it means the same thing, it does NOT mean Megabytes Per Second it means Mega Bits Per Second

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    Edited by TheSwollenBovine on June 10, 2018 10:25PM
  • TheSwollenBovine
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    Cathexis wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on why this might be?
    I am currently the only one on the network at this location and I do not have any other things downloading or client side bottlenecks or restrictions on my system that I am aware of.

    (speedtest showing 6mb/s)

    Sad face : ( I am sorry to tell you this but that 6 MB/s is telling you that your max speed on the best days is only going to hit about 0.75 of a single Megabyte so less then 1 meg a second... : ( if you can afford it I implore you to seek out a new ISP and ideally ( IN THE US AT LEAST ) you would want something with 200 UP and 200 DOWN so 200/200
  • TheSwollenBovine
    Just because you have internet does not mean it will be reliable or robust, 6 mbps may just be the limit you have, where are you in the world? I don't know any place that has such weak infrastructure >.<
  • Cathexis
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    Are your sure its not 6 M Bits per second instead of 6 megabytes per second? In almost every case net speed as advertised by an ISP is stated in M Bits If you are only paying for 6 M Bits that would explain the slow speed.

    Here is an example of what I mean by M Bits, note here M Bits is written as Mbps - but it means the same thing, it does NOT mean Megabytes Per Second it means Mega Bits Per Second

    gtma778hqmqs.png

    on bytes not bits

    download speed does not seem to correlate with the actual limitations of my network speeds.
    Edited by Cathexis on June 12, 2018 4:59AM
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  • dbgager
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    The little b on Mb indicates megabits ..Megabytes is MB.

    That would be less than 1 MB/sec. About 45 MB a minute. About 2.7GB an hour.
    Edited by dbgager on June 14, 2018 11:27PM
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