drmike
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Hi all,
For years, I've been using broadband internet connections. At home, I had Verizon DSL for a while, and now I have Time Warner cable. While both of these are 1.5 MB/sec connections, I've noticed that, with each, the fastest speeds I ever get when actually downloading a file is somewhere in the range of 180KB/sec. I'll sometimes test this by downloading a file from Adobe or Apple, or a similar site run by a major company with many servers, and I still get those speeds -- nothing ever close to a megabyte or a meg-and-a-half per second.
At work, where I have a T1 line, the actual download speeds are faster, but usually nothing over 250-300 KB/sec.
Why is this? I assume this is normal, as I see these kinds of speeds everywhere. Why don't actual download speeds meet the connection speeds?
For years, I've been using broadband internet connections. At home, I had Verizon DSL for a while, and now I have Time Warner cable. While both of these are 1.5 MB/sec connections, I've noticed that, with each, the fastest speeds I ever get when actually downloading a file is somewhere in the range of 180KB/sec. I'll sometimes test this by downloading a file from Adobe or Apple, or a similar site run by a major company with many servers, and I still get those speeds -- nothing ever close to a megabyte or a meg-and-a-half per second.
At work, where I have a T1 line, the actual download speeds are faster, but usually nothing over 250-300 KB/sec.
Why is this? I assume this is normal, as I see these kinds of speeds everywhere. Why don't actual download speeds meet the connection speeds?