PrecariusCibarius

Here are my account details:

2.62 megabytes per second (12 megabits/s) downstream.

I see now where I'm getting confused.

I just discovered that i've magically been assigned a 250GB monthly download cap too... yay.

I wasn't made aware of that either. I guess you can't expect much for your dollar any more.. I remember back in the day when only satellite connections had a monthly cap.

Lame.

sure! it's strange though - speedtest.net give me a result twice that of this site.. I got 10.7 from here and ~20 there.

K.. i'm gonna try to get this right.. but I'm newly interested in wtf goes on with my internet connection and I'm having trouble finding answers to questions I don't even know how to ask.

I have a 20mb/s connection via comcast. ~2mb/s up.

using utorrent, I have never seen my GLOBAL download rate (multiple torrents running at once) exceed 1.5mb/s (say, 2mb/s to be generous).. even when toggling the speed guide and port forwarding.

20mb/s is extremely fast.. but I kinda feel like I would be just as happy using a 5mb/s connection.. as it would appear that I'll never be able to actually utilize much more than that..

what am I missing? Do I need to do more in-depth forwarding and tweaking of my router to get these things to fly?