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by quain433

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Im paying ATT for a 6 meg down load speed but Im not even getting 1 meg. Can any one help me fix this. Any time I down load something I cannot get no more than 600 kbs. I shold be getting a lot more than that. Ive got a 10/1000 realtek gigabit card. Im not Sure if that makes difference or not. Is their any configuration I need to make. I was thinking about installing a direct ethernet line to my phone hub outside. Would that help anything. Please advide, Any and all advise is greatly appreaciated.

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by tintoman

So you're getting 600Kbps are you? well I can tell you that some people in my area have 8Mbps broadband but I have never seen a download faster than about 190Kbps.
All manner of things affect this, like how many other computers you have chewing up the bandwidth of your connection, how much bandwidth the server you download from allocates for file download,to name but two
If I were you I would be grateful for what I have

by wlei24114

I got 1.5MB internet connection. The download speed is around 150k.

So the one you got is 6MB

Your download speed should be around 4 X 150k = 600k.

by liame

Broadband speeds are quoted in megaBITS per second.

Downloads are usually quoted in mega(or kilo)BYTES

Have a look at you download speed again. If you are as I suspect you might be getting 600 kilobytes per second you are doing pretty damn well and I'd be singing the praises of my ISP if they matched that. If that is the case you are getting a true d/l speed of 4.8Mbps, which when you factor in networking overheads and latency etc it is spot on. Try downloading a 5 megabyte file from a fast site. Is it downloading in 10 seconds or 2 minutes? If its the former you are getting great speed for your money, if its the latter you are being ripped off like the rest of us.

Bear in mind that the headline speed they quote is only ever a max speed in ideal circumstances and not something many users ever see. Its the eqivalent of car makers selling you a car on the basis that it will do 150 mph knowing full well you will always have to drive in a traffic jam.

by david.wallis

1mb = 100k download(max!)
4mb = 400k download(max!)
6mb = 600k download(max!)

how far are you from the local exchange? the further away you are, the slower speeds you get.

Although your already on the max speed!!! :)

also check your isp when the say 6mb they usually say UPTO 6mb which covers them :)

by robo_dev

I have AT&T DSL Extreme, like the original poster has. My download speed is advertised at 6MBS down/768 up. On various speed tests, I typically get around 6.4MBs down and around 490kbps up.

The first thing that user must do is to log into his DSL modem and ensure that it is provisioned correclty.

Next, a call to AT&T is in order for them to test the line to see what his line can do. When I had line trouble a few years back, the technician made some minor improvements (300k faster) when he added an extra filter at the demarc point and re-terminated the connection.

go to www.dslreports.com and run their speed tests

by liame

Feel free to differ... its why we are here!

I am pretty sure though that actually exceeding the stated speed of your service is the exception not the rule.

I for one would never expect that to be the case, though of course I would be delighted to see it. I would never expect a 6 meg line to actually deliver more than about 5 Mbps of actual download speeed. If it were to exceed 6 meg I'd be checking my bill to see whether I've not been upgraded to an 8 meg line on the quiet.

Indeed logging into you router is the easiest way to check the circuit speed.

Of course when you say you are getting 6.4MBs download speed I am assuming you mean 6.4Mbps as it would require an 80Mbps or so connection to acheive the former. For comparison a 100Mbps local netwrk can copy at a rate of about 8MBs.

All this of course requires very, very low contention which sadly is not a situation many of us are in.

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