It started to slow down using Sky so I reported it, they found the speed had been set too high for my location IIRC 5Meg, so I was picking up so many errors the whole link slowed down.
They reset my link to 3meg and it works like a charm.
It could be you system error rate is high rather than the transfer rate being low.
It's what I get for paying near $50k to go to school every year!!
Our entire campus is fiber-optic. The local transfer stuff blows away internet speed. I can download near the max bandwidth of gigabit ethernet locally.
It's what I get for paying near $50k to go to school every year!!
Our entire campus is fiber-optic. The local transfer stuff blows away internet speed. I can download near the max bandwidth of gigabit ethernet locally.
It's what I get for paying near $50k to go to school every year!!
Our entire campus is fiber-optic. The local transfer stuff blows away internet speed. I can download near the max bandwidth of gigabit ethernet locally.
The not cool part: I have to take on most of that in student loans. Which I'll be repaying for I don't know how many years after I graduate. Hopefully under 5 if everything works out.
At home for the summer I use 5Mbit cable with 512kb up. For regular Internet browsing it's the same; however stuff like the Steam content delivery system (games) it becomes a burden. Something that could take hours to download is done in minutes at school. Result: I have about 1.5TB of storage space that I fill with stuff I might need over the summer so I don't have to put my family through degraded internet.
A friend of mine, a number of years back now (pre-ADSL) used to work in a large telecoms computer centre - around that time he also used to be heavily involved in LINUX (with parts of his code in a number of distributions). So he had a requirement for downloads CDROM's full of LINUX code from the the USA.
His answer was to do it at work, and write it to CDROM's - and he used to allocate himself sole use of a 10Mbit transatlantic link while he did it!
A friend of mine, a number of years back now (pre-ADSL) used to work in a large telecoms computer centre - around that time he also used to be heavily involved in LINUX (with parts of his code in a number of distributions). So he had a requirement for downloads CDROM's full of LINUX code from the the USA.
His answer was to do it at work, and write it to CDROM's - and he used to allocate himself sole use of a 10Mbit transatlantic link while he did it!
14 years ago a 56k dial-up modem had a download rate of about 33kbps. Yours is 19 times slower. Maybe you made a mistake and your download rate is 1.7Mbps, not kbps.
I have inexpensive (slow) cable broadband over my cable TV cable. My download rate is 2950kbps and my upload rate is 253kbps.
My cable TV/internet provider gave me higher-speed (5 times faster) for 6 months for free hoping I would buy it but I didn't notice much difference. I also didn't notice when they slowed it down to this inexpensive speed at the end of the 6 months trial period.