[SOLVED] Download Speed Nowhere Near What I Should Be Getting

[Gosraj]

Simple enough question. When I use a website like https://www.speedtest.net/ I get results saying my download speeds are around 800mbps, which is about 100mBps, yet when I actually download things, no matter what site or app they're from, I get speeds around 10mBps, Even if I have everything closed out and no one else in the house is using internet, and my ethernet cable is certainly fast enough for it. So why is this?

 

[bill001g]

Speedtest is designed for short burst of high speed download. Speedtest is actually a file download it just does not save the file. So technically your machine does download files at high speed.

It could be the other sites have a limit on how much they will allow you to take. It only takes a very small number of users that have gigabit connection to use all the upload bandwidth even from fairly large companies.

I would try to download a win10 image or other very large file form microsoft. Microsoft has huge bandwidth and has not limits. The only days you see some slowness is on the day a new patch comes out. You will need to watch the speed in the network tab of the resource monitor to get the rates.

If this has issues I would try to copy files between pc in your house and see how fast a rate you can get.

Although it may not be the case if you have a killer chipset in your pc it could be limiting you. They have silly so called "gamer" network software that messes stuff up all the time.

 

[SamirD]

Try the dslreports speedtest. I've found that to be the most accurate for US isps.

Also, keep in mind where what is being downloaded is being written to--I have seen different download speeds for things depending on how fast the file can be written to a drive, and that may be a bigger limiting factor.