poor download speeds

[callum44]

i have recently purchased a new sony vaio laptop(vgn fe31h) with a respectable spec. however after attempting to download music, etc my download rate does not exceed 30kb/s despite my 8meg broadband. my roeuter incidently is the bt home hub. could some one please please give any suggestions as to why this could be. i share a house with two other workstations so it is possible that my bandwidth has been capped.
please help, as very frustrating thank you

 

[pokemon87654]

are you wireless, becuase wireless is usualy ALOT slower then being connected by a cord

 

[callum44]

yes i am wireless. however i have seen on similiar networks with laptops of equal spec speeds reached in excess of 100kb/s. the 30kb/s i am receiving seems just to slow.

 

[holyjunk]

Helps me even though I already get great download speeds.
https://secure.internetdownloadmanager.com/index.html

 

[Shane]

Helps me even though I already get great download speeds.
https://secure.internetdownloadmanager.com/index.html

Is this freeware or not?

Thanks

 

[hells3000]

Is this freeware or not?

Thanks

Not

Free to try

 

[Shane]

Not

Free to try

K thanks bro,Il try it out anyway.

 

[Nini]

are you wireless, becuase wireless is usualy ALOT slower then being connected by a cord

Well yea but he has 8mb ..and me with 6mb i get 800kbps downloads on wireless

It also greatly depends on which site you are getting the download from

 

[computerhakk]

If every other wireless connection works well, try to see if your vaio have a firmware upgrade for your wireless a/b/g card.

 

[Trizoy]

Where are you downloading it from? If it is bit torrent 30 is good.

 

[hells3000]

i have recently purchased a new sony vaio laptop(vgn fe31h) with a respectable spec. however after attempting to download music, etc my download rate does not exceed 30kb/s despite my 8meg broadband. my roeuter incidently is the bt home hub. could some one please please give any suggestions as to why this could be. i share a house with two other workstations so it is possible that my bandwidth has been capped.
please help, as very frustrating thank you

Where are you downloading from?

Do you have a firewall in your router?

If so maybe you have to open a portal.

www.Portforward.com

go to common portals if it's common

duh

 

[toddl1]

have you exceeded your download quota?

 

[callum44]

i am using bittorrent to download as well as limewire. it seems strange that both max out at 30kbs. however during the night when i leave my laptop on and the only process running is bittorrent my speeds increase greatly up to 200kbs.
my internet connection is not limited incidently

 

[soccerdude]

There might be a cap. Check your router settings and see if there is one. If there is, just disable it and that should make it work.

 

[Technogab]

Try a speedtest

It may just be the site you are downloading from. Have you tried a speedtest. Go to www.speedtest.net and choose the location closest to you. See what your speeds are.