Can someone tell me, the logical reason why sites cap download speeds? People pay huge amounts of money for top speed internet, and then get capped, to find out a measly 3 mb file (Max Payne 2 Trailer) gets capped from 900kb/s to 26.6 kb/s. How screwey is that!
EDIT2 - My other download (Battle Tactics Mod) has gone from a 20 secoind download to 15 minutes. Come on!!
Originally posted by D43M0NSo one person is not using up all of the bandwidth.
Can someone tell me, the logical reason why sites cap download speeds? People pay huge amounts of money for top speed internet, and then get capped, to find out a measly 3 mb file (Max Payne 2 Trailer) gets capped from 900kb/s to 26.6 kb/s. How screwey is that!
EDIT2 - My other download (Battle Tactics Mod) has gone from a 20 secoind download to 15 minutes. Come on!!
As a general rule of thumb, the best download speed you'll ever get is 10-15% of your connection speed: e.g. when I was on a 56K dial-up, I as lucky to get 5-6k/sec actual download speed, and now I'm on 2meg/sec cable modem, the best d/l speed I've ever had is about 250k/sec.
Some websites do physically cap your d/l speed[1], but generally it's more to do with your ISP than the site you're d/l'ing from. Try using a peer-to-peer program (for something legal of course) and you'll see the same "cap", even if, for example, you're d/ling a file off of 30 people all on broadband (multithreaded), you'll never get better than 10-15% of your connection speed.
[1] A particular thing to be aware of is what time you're online - sites such as yahoo.com and other major sites get absolutely hammered between 9am-6pm Eastern US time and their servers crawl to a halt/shut down completely due the the massive number of Yanks that should be working but are instead using their work net connection to play online games, check e-mails, etc. It's amazing what a diference one country's users make to the overall net speed.
Originally posted by shortgoth1you do realize that the 56K and the 2Mbit is in bits and not bytes.. so 56K is about 5KB a sec
As a general rule of thumb, the best download speed you'll ever get is 10-15% of your connection speed: e.g. when I was on a 56K dial-up, I as lucky to get 5-6k/sec actual download speed, and now I'm on 2meg/sec cable modem, the best d/l speed I've ever had is about 250k/sec.
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