How do you adjust your bandwidth?

[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

WOOHOO! Mine's free, and I can go to my mom's house and get 25000 or something like that.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

i wish it was like that at my house.

 

[fwb_1234 10+ year member]

School.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

i have a cable connection but ****, my downloads have only been running like 1-2kbs /sec

What are you DLing? Are we speaking of torrent or the ilk? A popular andlarge site?

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

the term "broadband" doesnt mean it is fast. i have seen some DSL speeds that arent much better than dial up.

your DL speeds are dependant on the sources UL speed so although you may be able to DL at 500k, if the source can only UL at 5k thats all you get

when using speedtest divide the numbers by 8 and those will be the actual max speeds you will see

when DL'ing cap your UL speed to 85% of your max(the number you got when you divided by 8) so you can get the most out of your DL speeds. bouncing off your UL cap will decrease your DL speeds

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

My provider just did some line work in my neighborhood a few weeks back and it made a noticable difference. My service level is 5Mbps down/640kbps up.



Used to get around 2200-2800 kb/s before.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

WTF, This baffles me.

 

[kombat96 10+ year member]

tis mine

 

[Pimpdaddyq 10+ year member]

WTF!?! I have mediacom cable internet, and we pay for 1.5..



Im in my room.. like 200ft away from the wireless router, but whats that **** all about.. doesn't seem to be running slow, and I picked the nearest 2 places on the map to make sure..

Andrew

 

[BASSMEKANIK 10+ year member]

http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe

that actually works, just run it instead of saving it and set it to your bandwidth and then do a speed test... you can do a search and find out a little more about using that program to tweak your connection.

 

[BASSMEKANIK 10+ year member]

 

[Pimpdaddyq 10+ year member]

how do you adjust it to make it work better? I tried a couple things, but no luck..

Andrew

 

[Pimpdaddyq 10+ year member]

I messed around and read some instructions, and with their speed test I still was right around the same.. said I am 22% of the average speed from my local mediacom provider.. WTF.. I have a nice laptop, nice wireless router, thought nice provider, what could be the problem? Nobody else has any slow issues, although I don't really think it's slow..

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Andrew

 

[2002XLT 5,000+ posts]

 

[low00ranger 10+ year member]

when using speedtest divide the numbers by 8 and those will be the actual max speeds you will see

WTF?!?!

Speedtest uses your connection to monitor your downstream and upstream bandwidth and see what your connection is capable of. If I connect to a host or set of hosts that can max out my downstream then I'll see the speed within +/- 5% of what the speedtest results were, assuming my ISP provides high QoS.

Where you're confused is how some programs display your transfer speed versus what speedtest is displaying as your transfer speed. They show speed in bits whereas I.E. and other apps tend to show your rates in bytes. 8 bits in 1 byte so an 8 Megabit connection could basically be capable of 8 Megabit/s transfers or 1 Megabyte/s transfers. Same thing.



yay.

 

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[nbudros 10+ year member]

My up load is 5x my download... **** pc data card.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Mike is powning with that connection... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif