Quick Question? Expected Speeds
14-05-2008, 19:30
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Quick Question? Expected Speeds
Hi,
after fixing my 20 mb broadband after years of only having half of what I was expected I have no become obsessed with speeds.
I must of run about 200 speed tests, which all average around 18mbps. Or so on, but after download some game demos and software from different websites i noticed i have actually never seen the download speed (even on small files mp3 etc.) go to such blazing speeds as 15.1mbps, it will barely reach 1mbps if im lucky.
Is this a problem, cos it seems to me like im loosing out on about 80% of the actual broadband im paying for!?
Sorry if this is a silly question, just im interested to find out the workings.
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14-05-2008, 19:35
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
your broadband speed is measured in Megabits per seconds, downloads are in Megabytes,
A 20 Megabit Broadband like yours will download at max around 2.5 Megabytes a second
so yours speed is mbps, downloads are MB/s
Go here
http://www.gamershell.com/download_25786.shtml
Download from UK server seriously #2 and let us know what your DL speed is
Last edited by DjRalford; 14-05-2008 at 19:40.
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14-05-2008, 19:41
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
so with 20mb broadband and speed test showing that it is infact working correctly, i will only get direct downloads of about 2.5mb max? shouldn't it be 18-20mb max, or something?
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14-05-2008, 19:43
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
bits and bytes are different, there are 8bits to a byte, so 20Megabit broadband into bytes is 2.5Megabytes, which is the max download speed which 20Megabit broadband can achieve,
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14-05-2008, 19:44
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
downloading a file from the link, 1.2mbps
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14-05-2008, 19:47
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
Quote:
Originally Posted by sam-1990
downloading a file from the link, 1.2MB/s
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going on that your current speed is about 9.8Mbps, remember though you can only download as fast as a server can send it.
see the correction from your post, the downloads are MB/s, connection speed in mbps
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14-05-2008, 19:48
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
Quote:
Originally Posted by DjRalford
bits and bytes are different, there are 8bits to a byte, so 20Megabit broadband into bytes is 2.5Megabytes, which is the max download speed which 20Megabit broadband can achieve,
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right ok, very confusing, hehe. thanks for your help
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14-05-2008, 19:49
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
no problem
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14-05-2008, 19:50
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
well yeah, virgin stm has kicked in, download about 5 GB, so they cut my 20 to 10  hehe
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15-05-2008, 16:53
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
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Originally Posted by sam-1990
virgin stm has kicked in, download about 5 GB, so they cut my 20 to 10
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The download speed on XL, once STM is activated is 5Mb/s (640KB/s) and not 10Mb/s.
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15-05-2008, 18:27
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
I'm getting the same as sam-1990 so why the hell am I paying £37 per month when I'm only getting 5Mb/s
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15-05-2008, 21:34
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
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Originally Posted by _wtf_
I'm getting the same as sam-1990 so why the hell am I paying £37 per month when I'm only getting 5Mb/s
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Read the threads on STM - they will explain it.
or
VirginMedia
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15-05-2008, 22:51
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
My Speed is fine just checked it.
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16-05-2008, 09:01
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
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16-05-2008, 09:45
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Re: Quick Question? Expected Speeds
Speed Test Obsession - Should it be a medical condition 
What ever happened to just doing what you need to do and if it happens as fast as you need it to being happy.
i.e. If you download something and by the time you have had your tea or been for a pee it is done.. Then why worry what the average speed across the download was?
Ok, if it is taking forever to get your music, video etc or your streaming is buffered to hell, then fair enough.. But this obsession with checking your speed is mental isn't it 
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