Make my internet faster

**ICE** · October 1st, 2007, 02:37

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

***quzar*** · October 1st, 2007, 04:13

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

**Junixx** · October 1st, 2007, 04:19

Originally Posted by 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 ?

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** · October 1st, 2007, 11:11

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** · October 1st, 2007, 14:14

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)

**bah** · October 1st, 2007, 15:34

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.