Internet Speed
ramzan62
Newbie

I just got a new 50/25 internet plan ..I have checked the speed its approximately 50...But when I started downloading a video .It was showing me 6 Mbps, and didn't exceed the 6 Mbps..Can someone tells me why am I not getting the 50 Mbps speed for downloading ..?

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Re: Internet Speed
eljefe2
Master - Level 1

When you download a file the speed you get depends on the upload speed at the server feeding you the file, as well as you're own download speed.

Many servers can and will feed you at 50 mb/s but many can't.  If you're downloading a file from a server that can't max out your download speed there's not much you can do about it.

Re: Internet Speed
Hubrisnxs
Legend

Also be careful not to confuse BITS for BYTES.

There are 8 bits in a byte, so if you are showing 6 mbits, then that might actually be (6x8=48) Mega Bytes.

 
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JDoe5
Specialist - Level 1

I am on the 50/20 plan and I just downloaded the latest version of SureThing last last night. 

A 500MB download that was retrieved at 5.4MB/s.  I call that pretty good.

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bbruce1
Newbie

As others have mentioned, the limit may be on the other end of the transfer...

I suggest trying a bandwidth measurement site like www.speakeasy.net/speedtest (and choose a city near you at a non-peak time) to see you actual bandwidth.

That said, I generally see 16 Mbps down/4.5 Mbps up here from my 15/5 plan, but I VERY often see stutters at even non-HD youtube, netflix, or vudu streaming video ... Since I never saw any of these with my old Comcast 10/2 plan, I am pretty sure the problem isn't on the other side but is Verizon's... 😞

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eljefe2
Master - Level 1

My experience is just the opposite.   Using FiOS' own speedtest or any of a number of servers at www.speedtest.net, I always get 43/35 mb/s with my 35/35 plan.   Cablevision here was much less reliable, especially evenings, weekends, and other busy times for residential downloading.

I just donwnload a 1.1 GB installer from Adobe.  My connection was maxed at 5.2 mB/s for the 4 minutes it took to download that large file.  I typically get the same results from any serious server, Adobe; Apple; Google;  Microsoft, etc.

But when it comes to donwloading videos I do sometimes see transfer speed vary alot.  I blame the servers being saturated from not enough capacity, not anything Verizon can fix.

We're all entitled to our own opinion, of cousre.   If I were getting noticeably worse results from FiOS than I got with cable.....I'd be back to cable.  That's the beauty of competition...having a choice. 

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JDoe5
Specialist - Level 1

People screw up scientific nomenclature all the time.  MB/s [MegaByte per second] <> Mb/s  [ MegaBit per second] and there is no "mb/s" as there is no such terminology as a MilliBit.

So if one is rated at a download speed of 50Mb/s then one should see, at the maximum, 6.25MB/s.  However in real life data transfers there is data transfer overhead and thus one will see less than 6.25 MegaByte per second.

SpeedTests are all good but don't reflect actually data transfers.  What they test is your limitations and not "real world".  However if you have a connection rated at 50/20 (50Mb/s down  and 20 Mb/s up) and you go to 5 so-called speedtest sites and they average 10/5 then you can say something is wrong in how you were provisioned or there is something wrong in your subnet that is limiting you.

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eljefe2
Master - Level 1

I agree with your comment about speedtests vs. the real world.  A speedtest or two can be a good quick tool to see if things are right or wrong with your bandwidth, but a real world test is a download or upload over a period of time.

I use DU Meter to measure my realtime data transfer rate, up and down.   Thus when I see DU Meter steady as a rock at 5.2 mB/s (megabytes per second), for a gigabyte download,  I know I'm getting what I pay for.

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