sandlotje89

I've been on a couple of different ISPs in a couple of different cities and have never understood this: Why is it that a bandwidth speed test (Speedtest for example) will indicate a much higher download potential than what we ever see? My test on that site claims 9000KB/s download rate, and yet the most that I can get on average is 1MB (1000KB) per second. I've NEVER even seen anything above 1.2MB/s, no matter the ISP or the server that I'm downloading from.

Is it that all of these ISPs coincidentally have the bandwidth capped at roughly the same amount? If so, that would be really odd. I am at a college right now and actual download speeds are roughly the same on both our wireless server and our local area connection. I'm using Port 80, and it is open. I used to have the understanding that I could get download speeds of numbers like 2-3MB/s on school networks, but I have yet to see any such thing. How do I get closer to reaching the numbers taht these bandwidth speed tests are showing?

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