Why do i get 3mb/s instead of 25?

[mrpoox]

Hey, guys. i just got a bill from verizon, and i wondered, why i'm paying for 25 mb/s download, if i'm getting maximum 3. is it something wrong with my router ( checked on different pc, it's the same) or is it normal?( network is not my thing). thanks for help, and sorry for my english.

P.S. I'm using cable.

 

[ko888]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

 

[USAFRet]

You're wired directly into the router?

 

[mrpoox]

You're wired directly into the router?

Yep

 

[mrpoox]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

Actiontec MI424-WR , and it was given by Verizon

 

[Rynhe]

lets say thats publicity... makes sence 25/8 = 3,125...the 25 must be showed in mbps... in that case divide it by 8 and it will show your real speed in megabyte per second
every interner provider does this to... it makes them look better... like i offer an amazing internet connection... all the providers usually uses mbps instead of MB/s or just megabyte per second... that way it would look a lot better cause not everyone know they are both different
i havent seen many provider use MB/s

 

[Kewlx25]

How are you measuring your speed? I just find it notable that 3MB/s is 24Mb/s, which is pretty much your rated speed.

Networks are rated in megatbits per second and file transfers are rated in megabytes per second. Networks have no notion of what a "byte" is and "byte" has many different definitions depending on what computer architecture you are using, but 8 bits to a byte is the most popular". "Files" on the other hand, are transferred one byte at a time, so file transfers care about bytes.

 

[USAFRet]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

Actiontec MI424-WR , and it was given by Verizon

OK.
So that would be Verizon FiOS?
How are you measuring that speed? What is showing you 3Mbps?

(I also have FiOS)

 

[mrpoox]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

Actiontec MI424-WR , and it was given by Verizon

OK.
So that would be Verizon FiOS?
How are you measuring that speed? What is showing you 3Mbps?

(I also have FiOS)

I mesured it by downloading from somewhere ( steam,origin, battle.net, some torrent and etc) max was ~3 mb.

Added: Yes it's FiOS

 

[USAFRet]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

Actiontec MI424-WR , and it was given by Verizon

OK.
So that would be Verizon FiOS?
How are you measuring that speed? What is showing you 3Mbps?

(I also have FiOS)

I mesured it by downloading from somewhere ( steam,origin, battle.net, some torrent and etc) max was ~3 mb.

And that is showing you megaBytes per sec.
Verizon is giving you megaBits per sec.

Approx 8:1. 3 x 8 is approx 25.
Test your speed at speedtest.net. It should show you around 24/25/26megabits per sec.

 

[mrpoox]

What is the brand and model number of the router?

Actiontec MI424-WR , and it was given by Verizon

OK.
So that would be Verizon FiOS?
How are you measuring that speed? What is showing you 3Mbps?

(I also have FiOS)

I mesured it by downloading from somewhere ( steam,origin, battle.net, some torrent and etc) max was ~3 mb.

And that is showing you megaBytes per sec.
Verizon is giving you megaBits per sec.

Approx 8:1. 3 x 8 is approx 25.
Test your speed at speedtest.net. It should show you around 24/25/26megabits per sec.

Thanks, a lot now I got. Have a good day/night.

 

[Kewlx25]

lets say thats publicity... makes sence 25/8 = 3,125...the 25 must be showed in mbps... in that case divide it by 8 and it will show your real speed in megabyte per second
every interner provider does this to... it makes them look better... like i offer an amazing internet connection... all the providers usually uses mbps instead of MB/s or just megabyte per second... that way it would look a lot better cause not everyone know they are both different
i havent seen many provider use MB/s

No engineer worth their salt would ever rate a network in bytes. You could flood your network connection with 64 bytes packets and transfer 0 bytes per second. Networks do not care about bytes at all.