Ok here's my problem. I have att/yahoo dsl. My speed test per. speedtest.net and att/yahoo both show download speeds of above 468-600 kb/s . My uploads are at about 319-420 kb/s ..my problem is that when I download anything from any website regardless of time of day/night I cannot download faster than 40-45kb/s ,at the same time when I am sharing a file the uploads are between 10-15kb/s. When I start the download process it starts off around 450kb/s but as the seconds tick away it drops until it reaches 0 then will go back up to a max of 40-45kb/s .. With that in mind If I take my computer over to my friends house hook up his cable modem its fine i can download at 800-600 kb/s and upload at 600-400kb/s all day/night long..whats going on? Please help. |||There is nothing wrong with your internet. If you download something, and it says downloading, or upload, it will say it in Kilo bytes per second. When you actually compare internet speed though on sites, speedtests, internet providers, it is in kilo bits per second. 8 bits = 1 byte. So you get up to 600 kilo bits per second down, and up to 420 up.|||The download starts with a large chunk - then the download speed starts calculating. What this means is that, just before the calculation, your "download speed" is infinite.
Secondly, the speed you get to a server you're downloading from depends on your connection speed (what you buy and what you'll usually see from speedtest.net), the speeds all along the path from you to the server and the server upload speed. You get the slowest of these. (Think of a Porsche on a one-lane road - it can only go as fast as the slowest car in front of it.) Check your speed with speedtest - that's as far as you have control over.
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