speedtest- what is the point of fat bandwidth? everything downloads <1mbps anyway
 

i have a couple isp accounts, 1 at ~26Mbps and 1 @ 6, both dl at the same rate, sub 1 mbps.

wtf!

ahh but what about multiple downloads

i find that they all cap at 500-800kbps on both. but i only do multiple download of a handful of files at a time, not like 50 or 100

Depends where I download from....I have seen my total download speeds at 3MB/s

exactly eh, so i wonder if most places are in the slow category, does it make sense to pay for fat bandwidth? hell, netflix only need 5 mbps to stream.........

All I can say is thank god for Verizon FIOS

Consider yourself lucky to have that, the best I can get is 8Mbps line speed, and I bet my account is more limited and more expensive than your 26Mbps. :thumbsup

Most if not all contracts here in the UK are "unlimited" (Fair Usage Policy Crap) on 20-100mpbs where as back home in Oz alot of IPS still cap in regards to $50 - 200GB and get upto 24mbps for example so I guess it depends where your from.... and obviously the higher the download speed the more people can use the same internet line without it getting bogged down to much...

i hit 6.5 mb/s all the time

Really depends who you load from. I have 100/100 fiber and I hit 6-7 MB/s all the time, or I can have 10 downloads around 1MB/s each.

It's a marketing ploy by the ISP.

The only time it matters is at speedtest.net so you can impress your friends.

sure seems that way eh, what's the fastest download speed you've noticed you've had regardless of isp and such?

Yeah... very gay except that I can run proxy scanners galore and other types of shit that used to kill my DSL line.

I've always wondered this same thing.. my usual download speed even from torrent is like 300kb/sec, on a 6mb connection. I think the fastest I've ever downloaded something was like in the 1mb+ range and most files I've downloaded at once is maybe 10 and it still didn't hit anywhere close to my max speed overall.. what is the damn point and more importantly why is the transfer not faster if both sides have fast up/down speeds? Obviously there's a bottleneck somewhere that needs to be taken care of and all these fast speeds are just a selling point..

i cant afford to download... :(

Since DVD video with eight channel audio is only 5Mbps, I really don't see the point
in 20+ Mbps per most users. With three people in the office, we average less than a
1GB per day. We don't need, therefore, to upgrade from the 8Mbps or whatever we
have now to the 15 Mbps our ISP offers.

i have close to 50 and at times get downloads in the 10 or so range.

This speed hiccup you guys are referring to is directly related to geographical distance to the servers you are downloading from.

For example if I'm 200ms away (ping server.com for this), and my rwin value (typical windows rwin value) is 65700

65700 / 200ms = 328.5 kB/s max download per connection.

65700 / 100ms = 657 kB/s max download per connection.

and so on.

check your own here: http://www.speedguide.net/analyzer.php

thats why cdn's are so nice.. they put you as close as possible to the destination so you can really rock it.

If you ARE close to a server, and the speed is still slow its 1 of two things..

1. there is packetloss along the way
2. the servers disks are maxed out.