Super Slow Download Speed?

[ajmcgrady3]

Paying for 20mb/s. I'm getting 2.0mb/s while downloading anything on my PC.

 

[Gam3r01]

Run speedtest and post the results, if I had to guess:
You are paying for up to 20Mbps, you are getting 2.0MBps.

ISPs typically list their speeds as bits, not bytes, whereas places like steam use bytes. One bit is 1/8 of a byte.
So you are paying for up to 20, which if you divide by 8, is 2.5MB, which sounds about right to me.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Also, even if you can see your 20 mb/s throughput via a testing site, doesn't mean that the source of your download is capable of, or willing to, send you data at that speed.

 

[ajmcgrady3]

Run speedtest and post the results, if I had to guess:
You are paying for up to 20Mbps, you are getting 2.0MBps.

ISPs typically list their speeds as bits, not bytes, whereas places like steam use bytes. One bit is 1/8 of a byte.
So you are paying for up to 20, which if you divide by 8, is 2.5MB, which sounds about right to me.

WiFi Speed Link

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Speed looks like it's working pretty much correctly. There are always going to be variations, but you're very close to the theoretical 20 you said your package is supposed to provide.

 

[Gam3r01]

Yeah, I see nothing wrong with that.
You will almost never get the "advertised" speeds, and the math checks out.

 

[ajmcgrady3]

Yeah, I see nothing wrong with that.
You will almost never get the "advertised" speeds, and the math checks out.

Then why does my speed go up to 200mb/s sometimes?

 

[Gam3r01]

Well, you never said that in the first place.
Where do you see those spikes happening?

 

[ajmcgrady3]

Well, you never said that in the first place.What
Where do you see those spikes happening?

Randomly while downloading

 

[Gam3r01]

I doubt its actually spiking to that speed, many download managers (like steam) can jump to high numbers for no reason.

 

[ajmcgrady3]

I doubt its actually spiking to that speed, many download managers (like steam) can jump to high numbers for no reason.

I see the download speed, go up greatly and time decreases