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In Topic: Shouldn't I be downloading at least 1mB/s?
14 May 2012 - 09:02 PM
Kopa26, on 14 May 2012 - 08:40 PM, said:
Here is my Testmy.net Results
and here is my Linespeed results
My ISP has also confirmed at their end that I am getting near 15Mbs down.
I have tried multiple browser downloads all with the same results, normally maxing out at 450kBs. (not p2p, torrents etc.)
Any ideas what could be limiting me to downloading at 450kBs. I thought in theory if I have a line speed of 11mbs that I should download at least 1mBs.
Trying to figure out what to do to fix this, if there actually is a problem.
Thanks.
and here is my Linespeed results
My ISP has also confirmed at their end that I am getting near 15Mbs down.
I have tried multiple browser downloads all with the same results, normally maxing out at 450kBs. (not p2p, torrents etc.)
Any ideas what could be limiting me to downloading at 450kBs. I thought in theory if I have a line speed of 11mbs that I should download at least 1mBs.
Trying to figure out what to do to fix this, if there actually is a problem.
Thanks.
the main reason your seeing such a difference between the test in brisbane and testmy.net is because the tests here are hosted in the united states as are most of the downloads your probably attempting to download
the 450kb/s limit your running into is most definately that of peering between Australia and the US
In Topic: Dual LAN & wifi A/B/G/N
13 May 2012 - 09:40 PM
dlf, on 13 May 2012 - 09:20 PM, said:
What of using ethernet cable (cat6?). Here's a irony (to me) this current computer gets about 350 KB/s through wifi. Yet a laptop I have that does support up to 1000mbps can get up to a meg on our wifi. As for the personal router I'd just buy a router and set it up? I will be downloading a lot of digtal games (from steam) - upwards of or more than 250 GB - on the current speed I get that'd take about 2 weeks - I'd like it (if possible) to take less time than that - though I'd think that'd be impossible short of Texas getting decent speeds throughout the entire state.
Cat6 is intended for speeds upwards of 1Gbps
Cat5e is perfectly fine for home use theres no way you'd be able to utilize Cat6 with the connection you currently have
infact you'd need an enterprise level connection such as the one hosting this testing site to even need Cat6 there are only a few places in the world that offer residential Gigabit connections
as far as different results with different computers that could be caused by a lot of things which we can discuss
your laptop probably has Gigabit LAN not a gigabit wifi connection it at most has a 450Mbps wireless N adapter but even still if your router is wireless G it will not connect at a rate higher then 54Mbps
~ Mark
