Make my internet faster

[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

[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