Speed test sites saying I download at 5 Mbps when I have a 15 Mbps connection?

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audiobahn1000

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I currently have a 15 Mbps down / 1.5 Mbps up cable Internet connection. However when I go to www.speedtest.net or www.speakeasy.net to test the speed of the connection its only showing like 5 Mbps down / 400 Kbps up speed. But when I download a file it downloads at about 1,400 KB/s (note that I said KILOBYTES per second not bits (as in 1,400 KBps = 11.2 Mbps)).

Anyway why do the down / upload speeds on the test sites suck but real file downloads are fast?
 
Don't complain so much and is normal not getting the full rated speed of a connection, complain when it goes to half without no reason
 
audiobahn1000 said:
I currently have a 15 Mbps down / 1.5 Mbps up cable Internet connection. However when I go to www.speedtest.net or www.speakeasy.net to test the speed of the connection its only showing like 5 Mbps down / 400 Kbps up speed. But when I download a file it downloads at about 1,400 KB/s (note that I said KILOBYTES per second not bits (as in 1,400 KBps = 11.2 Mbps)).

Anyway why do the down / upload speeds on the test sites suck but real file downloads are fast?
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I don't think these sites really work anyway.
I have a 1 MB download speed and it's showing that I have half.
Anyway why do you care so much, as long as you know your own speed.
 
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