Make my internet faster

[Man]

How come my ISP says that we have a 1.5Mbps connection, but i can only download stuff at like a 50Kb/s connection, thats a far cry from 1.5Mbps. And do you need a static ip adress to play on xbox live ?

[JKKDARK]

Call to your Internet provider

[splodger15]

Most ISP usually chat shit about there speed rates saying there the fastest but in fact there the slowest

[Man]

Well the thing is is that when we signed up it says 1.5Mbps connection, but iv never come close to that.

[BrooksyX]

Yeah mine says i am supposed to have 1.5 Mbps too, but I only get like 150Kbs download speed. Its a lot better than dial up though, so I really don't care too much.

[JKKDARK]

Well the thing is is that when we signed up it says 1.5Mbps connection, but iv never come close to that.

Do you have a friend with the same Internet provider? He has the same problem?

[Sonicboy 101]

Mine is supposed to be 8mb, it said after we'd be getting 4mb and its never came close.

[Buddy4point0]

lol im supposed to be 15MB per sec but i def download stuff at like 250kb

[Man]

Do you have a friend with the same Internet provider? He has the same problem?

no i just ment my family. and my ISP has an option of a 5Mbps connection, but is it worth the extra 20$ a month ? because if they say 1.5 Mbps and i get like 50 Kbps then what should i expect from a 5Mbps connection. ? and no one answered my other question about Xbox live.

[ICE]

well mine goes as fast as it says so what ever :P

[Man]

I wonder why some connections accually reach the speeds but other ISPs just say that they can, but they never do, that p****s me off the most.

[parkermauney]

Look at your connection, 1.5mb/s
That ends up being a download speed of about 187.5 MB/s

Take your connection speed, divide by 8, and that's how fast you should be able to download.

If you're still only getting 50KB/s downloads, you are getting gypped, I can get that with 256k

[Man]

BUY WHY !!! why would they tell us that we have a 1.5Mbps connection when its really only 187Kbps ? why do they lie to us like that ?

[dejkirkby]

Apparently if you get your broadband via your phone-line (ADSL, I think it's called) the further away from the exchange you are, the lower speed you get.
Whereas if you get cable broadband, you rarely suffer loss of speed.
I have Virgin Media cable broadband. I pay for 20mb and get like 18/9mb.

[Man]

thats not bad its like 1/2 but even still i apparently have 1.5 but im only getting like 50Kbps !!!

[sourced]

BUY WHY !!! why would they tell us that we have a 1.5Mbps connection when its really only 187Kbps ? why do they lie to us like that ?

to rip you off and make money :rolleyes:

[Napalm-Death]

Apparently if you get your broadband via your phone-line (ADSL, I think it's called) the further away from the exchange you are, the lower speed you get.
Whereas if you get cable broadband, you rarely suffer loss of speed.
I have Virgin Media cable broadband. I pay for 20mb and get like 18/9mb.

So you download at 18MB a second?

[lmtlmt]

my internet says 100.0mbps but i only download at 25kb sometimes less.

[xg917]

i only get 50-60 kb/s at the max for downloads

i have bright house road runner cable internet :/ idk if its normal but i wish i had faster internet.

[The King]

dont forget that some serves were people download from usualy are slow and not real fast dont forget it could also be from the site you download from

and yes you can use xbox live with that tipe of connection

[ICE]

i have dsl. its supposed to be 768k and i get about 86 kb/s.

[quzar]

I get about 10MBps down/up. Gotta love these University supercomputer connections.

[Junixx]

BUY WHY !!! why would they tell us that we have a 1.5Mbps connection when its really only 187Kbps ? why do they lie to us like that ?

This is where ISP's fool ALOT of people, 1.5 Mbps is Megabits, not bytes. Someone said earlier divide the number by 8 and thats what your download speed should be, its because there's 8 bits in a byte

(Mb = Megabits, MB = MegaBytes)

It's retarded and something you probably dont even notice but thats what rips people off.... My bro had bought a 512Mb GBA flash cart a long time ago and I kept wondering why it could only hold 64MB

[Man]

AWWW SHI*T, those sneaky bastards, now i understand, i bought my 16Gb flash cart, but i new it was only 2gig, but still now i understand !!!

[VampDude]

My internet is 8mbps, but through my wireless connection it's 2.56mbps...

...I have a download accelerator, so anything I download downloads pretty quickly! (which I can't complain) :p

[bah]

Thats not sneaky at all, its always been standard to measure/list bandwidth in bits and storage in bytes.

The sneaky part is that they oversell their bandwidth, meaning that their own connections cannot handle anywhere near 100% of their subscribers using 100% of their rated connection speed.

The main reasons you may not be able to get your full rated connection (the number in Kb/Mb devided by 8) would be:
The available upload bandwidth wherever the file your downloading is hosted. Free downloads on places like rapidshare are capped im pretty sure.
How much your ISP oversells their available bandwidth
How many of their subscribers are heavily using their connection at any given time
How much if at all they slow the traffic of heavy users. If you are one its bad, if your not its probably good.

Try downloading something hosted at your ISP, they probably have an ftp with linux distros and game updates etc, see what speed you get.

[SnesR0X]

I have 108 :p

[Man]

Do you need a static IP adress to play xbox live ?!!!?!!?!?!?!

[SnesR0X]

Is that what it tells you?

[Man]

Well thats what my ISP told me.