Limited speed?

[bielius]

i have a speed of 1.76bit per second+or more(on www.bandwidthplace.com) <- is it only in USA?
on www.speedtest.net it shows-

^^ there is no server near me, so it's about 100km from where i live.
on torrents, there are MANY seeds but it downloads only 300-390kbps.
same on IE7. mayby there's some limits that can only do 400 kbps?
thanks!

 

[Tmagic650]

So are you having trouble opening up or connecting to Internet pages? I'm running 4000 kb/s 233kb/s. Your router can affect Internet speeds too

 

[jdillman1502]

Well, your actual download speed is about 1/8 of what your service speed is.

 

[Tmagic650]

jdillman1502,
what should a good percentage be between download speed and the service speed?

 

[jdillman1502]

Typically... whatever speed your ISP has your service at, figure 1/8 that for actual download speed. For example, if you have a 3MBps service, you acutally download at about 350k at best. Other limiting factors are present... like the upload speed of the server you are downloading from, network traffic, etc.

 

[bielius]

but is it possible to make more than 1/8 speed? btw i dont use wireless, i use wire, so max speed on my internet chip is 10/100mbps speed. thanks!

 

[DelJo63]

so max speed on my internet chip is 10/100mbps speed.​

you'll NEVER hit that as ethernet real limit is ~70% of those values due to the
contention network design.

btw: I have a good rate at ISP rate 9751kbps / 980kbps using a 100m nic

 

[SNGX1275]

Pay attention to UNITS!

Mbits is not the same as MBytes. 8 bits per byte.

 

[jdillman1502]

Exactly like SNG said... thats why you only see a transfer rate of about 1/8 your service speed. Like Jo said, your limiting factor on transfer speed will never be your LAN connection, unless there is some type of hardware trouble or you have a service speed that is ridiculous (several $1000's per month cost, and not available to residential as far as I know ).