Please help!

[riCtus]

My internet speed is 25-30 Mb/s(tested in speedtest.net), when i download something goes about 1-1.2MB/s. Please help!

 

speedtest.net results: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5609535208

[dantayy]

Your download speed depends on the download server's speed too. Just because your connection is fast dosen't mean the server's connection is fast. Especially if the server is in a different region. Your download speed will be the slowest link between you and the server

[glunday]

also your ISP could be throttling you when they detect that your downloading.

[Jesmo]

And be sure to not mix up bit and byte...  I have a 60 mBIT connection which gives me about 7 mBYTES a second download...

[dantayy]

1 minute ago, glunday said:

also your ISP could be throttling you when they detect that your downloading.

Pretty sure that's not allowed by law unless they specifically say that they will trottle speeds when you are signing up for their internet

[Naeaes]

A few things come to mind. Firstly, Speedtest.net automatically picks the server that's closest to you. If you're downloading from further away, it's bound to be slower. To verify, manually pick a speedtest server that's not so close. 

Secondly, there's some confusion related to downloading. You see, when you download a file, it's not just the file that's transmitted, there's lots metadata related to the routes, sizes, addresses, protocols, security and so on. That's just to say, if your download speed is 25 MBps, it does not mean you can download a file with a size of 25MB in one second. Thirdly, make note of your bits and bytes. MB is Megabytes. Mb is Megabits. One byte is eight bits. Go take a look at the Speedtest results. It's in Megabits. To make it correlate with your download speeds, you need to divide the test result by 8. Fourthly, Your ISP might be throttling downloads especially P2P. And lastly, sadly there's nothing you can really do about any of this. Be it your ISP, the ISP of the download server, some ISP in between, your dataplan, the distance etc, the issue is beyond your control. Unless your ISP actually guarantees higher download speeds, you can't even complain to them. The speedtest.net test proves your hardware and plan can do at least 7MBps down, which to me sounds like a pretty basic DSL connection. You could look into switching to fiber. But unless it's already connected, it costs like crazy. 

[glunday]

2 minutes ago, Ernest_L said:

Pretty sure that's not allowed by law unless they specifically say that they will trottle speeds when you are signing up for their internet

did you read every single page when you signed up with your ISP? Its a pretty easy thing for them to slip in.

[dantayy]

2 minutes ago, Jesmo said:

And be sure to not mix up bit and byte...  I have a 60 mBIT connection which gives me about 7 mBYTES a second download...

Yup, alot of people get confused about this.

 

10 Bits = 1 Byte

10 Mbps (Megabit) = 1 MBps (Megabyte)

10 Gbps (Gigabit) = 1 GBps (Gigabyte)

 

Internet speeds are always in bits. Whereas all the files sizes on your computers, thumbdrives, phones are in bytes

[dantayy]

1 minute ago, glunday said:

did you read every single page when you signed up with your ISP? Its a pretty easy thing for them to slip in.

They specifically said that there will be no trottling at all, even for bittorrents for my ISP.

 

Make sure you ask about trottling and if they block any ports like port 80 if you want to host anything in your home before signing on to an internet plan. Also some ISPs start to trottle your internet speeds if you exceed a data limit.

[glunday]

1 minute ago, Ernest_L said:

They specifically said that there will be no trottling at all, even for bittorrents for my ISP.

 

Make sure you ask about trottling and if they block any ports like port 80 if you want to host anything in your home before signing on to an internet plan. Also some ISPs start to trottle your internet speeds if you exceed a data limit.

we were told that we wouldn't be throttled and couldn't find it in the paperwork, BUT we were throttled and they only stopped when we threatened to sue. it happens, and i know many people that they did slip it into the paperwork. OP could be in a situation like that and not know it.

[riCtus]

Thanks everyone for helping! Now i understand why is slow.

[paddy-stone]

9 minutes ago, Ernest_L said:

Yup, alot of people get confused about this.

 

10 Bits = 1 Byte

10 Mbps (Megabit) = 1 MBps (Megabyte)

10 Gbps (Gigabit) = 1 GBps (Gigabyte)

 

Internet speeds are always in bits. Whereas all the files sizes on your computers, thumbdrives, phones are in bytes

Pretty sure you got that wrong there...

 

Should be:-

 

8 Bits = 1 Byte

8Mbps = 1 MBps

8Gbps = 1 GBps

 

It's a factor of 8, so no idea why you're putting 10.

[dantayy]

4 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Pretty sure you got that wrong there...

 

Should be:-

 

8 Bits = 1 Byte

8Mbps = 1 MBps

8Gbps = 1 GBps

 

It's a factor of 8, so no idea why you're putting 10.

Well its nearly the same and powers of 10 is easier to calculate. Sorry but im a Metric person

 

But you are right if you want to be more accurate it is in factors of 8

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, Ernest_L said:

Well its nearly the same and powers of 10 is easier to calculate. Sorry but im a Metric person

No it's not nearly the same, you added 25% to it by putting 10 instead of 8.... I'm also a Metric person and bits/bytes have nothing to do with metres or metric, sorry.

 

[Lurick]

11 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Pretty sure you got that wrong there...

 

Should be:-

 

8 Bits = 1 Byte

8Mbps = 1 MBps

8Gbps = 1 GBps

 

It's a factor of 8, so no idea why you're putting 10.

Don't forget the almost forgotten nibble

 

4 bits = 1 nibble

2 nibbles = 1 byte

[thething55]

36 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Don't forget the almost forgotten nibble

 

4 bits = 1 nibble

2 nibbles = 1 byte

I haven't heard that phrase in ages!

[EvilLemur]

even tho this was answered you also are ignoring the fact that you can have a 1gigbit connection with fiber and still download slowly, it all depends on the connection the server has and how many open connections are available, bigger and stronger networks have better download capabilities but many throttle their bandwidth to allow more connections, if you want to see max downloading speed try downloading something hosted off Mega, or any big hosting site like that.

[paddy-stone]

Linux distros are often hosted on quite good servers from my experience, you might not get the absoloute max your connection can handle, but it's good for testing real world speed rather than speedtest.net. If you don't want a linux distro, then you can just cancel during the download.