Why is my 2Mb/s Uncapped Internet so slow? (Max 250kb/s Download Speed)?

Question

I'm using Telkom 2Mb/s Uncapped Internet in South Africa and only got the max download speed of 250kb/s ever for my 3 months history with them. The speedtest.net website shows: 209 ms(Ping) Download Speed of = 0.90 mbps it did once show 1.5 mbps.

I have a Intel H77 Motherboard and using my onboard LAN towards the modem which has the ADSL cable pluged into it. It shows 300Mb/s on it's box.
I also have a GTX 650 NVidia Grahics Card, 16 Gb RAM, I5 CPU(3.2Ghz) and Win 8 64Bit - if that helps. What can I do to fix this? I'm using Google Chrome.

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Answer 1

You gotta do the math. Your internet service is sold to you in Bits. You purchased a 2 Megabit speed package from your ISP. Downloads are calculated in Bytes though. There are 8 Bits in 1 Byte. 2 (your internet speed) divided by 8 (the number of bits in a byte) equals 0.250. Therefore, 0.250 Megabytes per second (or 250 Kilobytes per second) is your maximum download speed. So you're getting exactly what you're paying for. If you want to go faster, purchase more speed from your ISP.

Answer 2

Because that's some really slow internet, that's why. I have 25 mb/s and it's pretty much just average for internet speeds nowadays. It costs me $50 a month with no contract from Comcast. What you have is nearly dial-up compared to anything modern. Where did you get 2 MB/s? I don't even know anyone who has that low of a speed. There's honestly nothing you can do to speed that up, except to buy faster internet. Your computer is great. And almost my exact computer.



I have a

3.1 GHZ i5 quad core

16gb RAM

evga gtx 650 ti superclocked 2gb gpu

win 7 64-bit

Answer 3

Because 2 Mb/sec = 2*1024/8 = 256 kB/sec



Sounds like you are getting what you pay for.

Answer 4

You should have less people using it at one time

Answer 5

2mb Internet

Answer 6

taking high speed connection is not enough, South Africa is fighting with internet speed you know very well. Suppose a particular internet port has a capacity to give 10 connection with high speed to consumers. But they are distributing to 20. That means it will just create a load to the server downgrading the speed. Better check with your service provider.

Answer 7

ADSL, so linked through the phone line? Either a slow or over-syndicated telephone exchange along the path to the ISP, or a 'weak' line.