Guest Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Clearly. What I meant was: why does 5mbps = 1mbps dl on files and 20mbps = 2.2mbps dl on files? it doesnt. technically speaking, 5 megabits per second is .625 megabytes per second and 20 megabits per second is 2.5 megabytes per second. all ISPs advertise in megabits because its a bigger number than megabytes. you were probably just getting faster speeds than what you paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awhitewookie Posted December 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Thank you for clearing that up for me. Makes much more sense now MY BUILD 1998 Ford Explorer 2dr sport 1/0 Big 3 1/0 everything Alpine cda-9884 Crescendo CZ components (2) Crescendo bc2000's (2) Jolt 150ah (2) Yellow top optimas (1) Juicebox black cherry addition (1) Mechman 270 avbm miss my bc5500 and (4) 15's You know why people are ass holes online but not in person? Because getting punched in the mouth hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaker Posted December 4, 2013 Report Share Posted December 4, 2013 Yeah, I have 50 Mbit and I download around 5.2-5.6 meg/sec from steam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMDSmith Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Just as an FYI, schools use rate shaping on their networks, especially on certain types of traffic such as torrents. I know we block torrent traffic entirely (unless it is encrypted, can't do much about that), just so we don't get the shitty RIAA letters. So your speedtests and your download speeds will likely be completely different. Networking isn't as cut and dry. Do you go to a large University? If you do, they likely have at least 1 firewall, if not 2+, an IPS/IDS, a packetshaper, a load balancer, a web cache proxy, and a few other devices between you and the "internet". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 I know some of those words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awhitewookie Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Just as an FYI, schools use rate shaping on their networks, especially on certain types of traffic such as torrents. I know we block torrent traffic entirely (unless it is encrypted, can't do much about that), just so we don't get the shitty RIAA letters. So your speedtests and your download speeds will likely be completely different. Networking isn't as cut and dry. Do you go to a large University? If you do, they likely have at least 1 firewall, if not 2+, an IPS/IDS, a packetshaper, a load balancer, a web cache proxy, and a few other devices between you and the "internet". Im not on the Universitys' internet MY BUILD 1998 Ford Explorer 2dr sport 1/0 Big 3 1/0 everything Alpine cda-9884 Crescendo CZ components (2) Crescendo bc2000's (2) Jolt 150ah (2) Yellow top optimas (1) Juicebox black cherry addition (1) Mechman 270 avbm miss my bc5500 and (4) 15's You know why people are ass holes online but not in person? Because getting punched in the mouth hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8ball2013 Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Doesnt mean they dont do packet shaping and bandwidth restricting. Its very easy to automate people who are using an exorbitant amount of bandwidth when the propwr tools are in place THERE IS NO BUILD LOG! 1998 Chevy Silverado ext cab Alpine CDA-9887 4 Team Fi 15s 2 Ampere Audio TFE 8.0 2 Ampere Audio 150.4 3 Digital Designs CS6.5 component sets Dual Mechman 370XP Elite alternators inbound! 8 XS Power d3400 6 XS power d680 Second Skin Stinger Tsunami Wiring Sky High A Real Voltmeter not a piece of shit stinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMS Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Run a test there. It will give you your usual speedtest, but then it will convert that into transfer rate too (actual download speed through steam or origin or any other thing you download) Alpine PDX-V9 Morel Tempo 6 Alpine SBR-S8-4 Alpine CDE 149BT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awhitewookie Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Doesnt mean they dont do packet shaping and bandwidth restricting. Its very easy to automate people who are using an exorbitant amount of bandwidth when the propwr tools are in place I did not know this. Thanks! Ill have to check out that other test too to get a full grasp of my connection. Appreciate it as always MY BUILD 1998 Ford Explorer 2dr sport 1/0 Big 3 1/0 everything Alpine cda-9884 Crescendo CZ components (2) Crescendo bc2000's (2) Jolt 150ah (2) Yellow top optimas (1) Juicebox black cherry addition (1) Mechman 270 avbm miss my bc5500 and (4) 15's You know why people are ass holes online but not in person? Because getting punched in the mouth hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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