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It's because ISP's promise you 20Mbps not MBps. So your download speed is 20Mbps/8 = 2.5MB/s

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Why is it that I pay for 20 Mbps upload and 20 Mbps download but when I download something the download caps off at about 2Mbps? Could it be because I have an old router?

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Can you directly connect whatever you're using to the modem?

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Because your download speed is Megabits. A file is Megabytes. They are not the same form of measurement.

 

Run www.speedtest.net and see if you are getting what you're supposed to.

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Why is it that I pay for 20 Mdps upload and 20 Mdps download but when I download something the download caps off at about 2Mdps? Could it be because I have an old router?

 

i guess you have megabits and megabytes here. 16 megabits are around 2 megabytes so with your 20k internetconnection it matches with your messured speeds.

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