Download Speed Limit

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JohnW8866

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What can limit my download speed? Whenever I download things I always download around 120kb/sec. No matter what type of d/l weather its p2p or from a website. I am connected wireless with a G router. I have tried opening ports for my p2p d/l ing, but has not improved. Any ideas?

Add: I would love to try connecting my computer directly into my modem skipping the router so I can see if it is a restriction between the computer and the router or elsewhere, but I have a modem/router comb unit.]\


Any suggestions would be great!

- John
 
some companys offer " up to blah blah speed"...

this is a good way of wording and its also a sign that you might not get that speed and there is nothing you can do about because its not a garantee that you will recieve that speed.

i have been with a few companys now and nearly all but one sucked, i was offered a package "up to 8mb" and i recieved less than 1mb

yet when i complained they said it was my phone line was not capable of the speed, now i switched to another company and im enjoying speeds up to 17.5mb

but when your download is as high as 17mb you are limited to the server you are downloading off's upload speed!

i very rarely go over 2.5mb but it goes to show you that these internet providers are "traffic shaping" "speed throttling" etc etc



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Songs useing Limewire and utorrent, games as well. Also random programs from different websites. Games from web sites. No matter what i download it seems to be around 120 kb/s. And I seen that you said that you can download at 17.5 mb but the website limits you. I know that alot of these things I am downloading is able to push out more than 120 kb/s.
 
JohnW8866 said:
D/L: 1.2 mb/s
U/L: 0.37 mb/s
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If your download speed is 1.2 mb/s(most likely you are on the 1.5mb dsl package), your max file download speed will be around 150 kb/sec. But your download speed all depends on the server you are downloading the file from.
 
JohnW8866 said:
Songs useing Limewire and utorrent, games as well. Also random programs from different websites. Games from web sites. No matter what i download it seems to be around 120 kb/s. And I seen that you said that you can download at 17.5 mb but the website limits you. I know that alot of these things I am downloading is able to push out more than 120 kb/s.
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im afriad p2p networks are frowned upon by isp's and they do normaly throttle the connections to these networks
 
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