my connection is 2.5mbps,but i only download at 300+ kbs, why? Also if i get a 10/1000 card, will it be faster then my 10/100 card now and why?
204169
Because when they say 2.5mbps, that's 2.5 megabits per second.  When you download at 300k, that's 300 kilobytes per second.  2500/8 = 312, so your download is going about as fast as it is going to go.  Getting a 10/1000 won't help if your ISP doesn't support faster than 2.5 anyway.
404188
Why don't you go out and buy a version of it? the firewall is there for your protection so it will prevent certain actions when downloading content. 1mb broadband is not enough you may have to upgrade to 4mb or more
343672
set the NIC speed to a lower number on the computer you wish to b/w limit ... understand that the bandwidth you get from your internet provider is (under ideal conditions) 5Mb up and 5 Mb down (reality is more like >400Kb up and 5Mb down) ...  unless you are downloading huge files, you wont really impact each other... its unlikely that you will see much difference in performance unless you are using some really antiquated junk
140133
If the other people in your house, are receiving good speeds and your card is not, then it cannot be your modem because they are receiving a good connection. It is either going to be your computer, or your wireless card. Chances are that you have a defective card, because if you are surfing, than there is no setting that you can really manipulate in your computer to make it go faster, other than deleting the cache and cookies. (I work for an ISP technical support helpdesk)...Try to get a new card installed, of try a Linksys wireless G adapter at Walmart, or Circuit City (between 30-50$), because sometimes it can just be that your card is not very compatible with your wireless router.
133551
Go here to test your connection speed: http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/\n\nI will assume that your set is malware free and therefore the slowdown could be due to non-optimal settings. If so, download SG TCP Optimizer 2.0.1 from here: \nhttp://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php \nand run it to get the required optimum settings for your PC.\n\n\n***AND THE FINAL MIRACLE.. YES THERE IS SOFTWARE THAT DOES THAT!!!!***
479916
It depends.  The rate they sell you is not the rate you will always get.  You could have a 20mbps connection and depending on certain variables (cable or dsl, distance from provider, computer hardware, etc) you won't get that full 20mbps.  As a general rule of thumb, you never get the full amount of speed you are supposed to be able to get.  Yes, that is a fast connection and definitely fast enough to hook your psp to.  Want to check what you're really getting?  Look up the "Speak Easy" test on yahoo.
530554
Nope. It's either just that big, or you don't have enough peers to share with. Hopefully, you made sure your torrent had enough seeders and leechers before you chose it. The only way to "speed it up" at all is if you have the Azureus client where you have the kick/ban feature to ban other leechers who are NOT helping YOUR download. \nIf you're downloading a game, then you have to realize that it's REALLY big. Otherwise, your comp is just slow or you're doing too much on your comp concurrently with your download.
450105
For a start The cards are either I gigabyte, and the other is 512 mb, approx half of your 1 gig, the problem with you not being able to view them, maybe because they are a different format, you say you can get jpegs, bu there are quite a few formats out there, maybe its not reading the format you have, try putting them in to, lets say, photo express, or anything like it, turn them in to jpegs, then you will be able to read all of your info, by the way, i have a seven million pixel camera, and my 1 gig card will give me 7 and a half minutes of video, hell knows how many photo's it will store, but as you probably know, the more pixels you have, the less photo's you can store, albeit, of a higher quality
535333
the upload speed also depends on the person doing the upload. you may have cable which is really fast, but someone downloading one of your files may only have dial-up. so its only going to go as fast as they can download it. those upload speeds shouldn't slow your download speeds. with someone uploading at a slow rate, that gives you more room in the bandwidth to download. but keep in mind when you are downloading that it depends on the persons computer you are downloading it from. they may have a slower connection. good luck!
129922
It deends on a lot of things,\na)What is your connection speed.Is x be it then  X/8  is the max download speed possible in Kb/s.Eg:For a 256 Kbps connect,32-40(max)kb/s possible\nb)It also depends on the number of Sources who have the same file and who are online\n\nRegarding the other detail,depending on the legality of the file in question , other sources are possible!!!
418801
You wont be able to download at 512KBs unless your internet plan is that speed.\n\nthe router wont help the speed only your plan will
366170
I have 30 Mbit/sec FIOS, but I actually can get faster: http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nonwirelesstestmyspeedsdlsmall.jpg  The problem is that hardly any site will give me that kind of bandwidth.  I still only average 300-1000 KB/sec, when downloading files.  \n\nOh, and the answer to your question is that you're getting what you're paying for.  Pay a bit more, and you'll get ALOT more bandwidth.  For instance: http://www.fiberexperts.com/
400021
Theoretically it should be 1000mbps ... but this is usually never the case if you're lucky and everything is working fine you should achieve approx 3/4 of the actual rated speed
111062
That's the maximum bandwidth. You'll never have all the time that ammount. Ask them what's the minimum bandwidth guarantee and the usual one. They should tell you because it's written in the contract!
220984
Well, you can have the world's fastest computer, but running behind a 56k connection, you still have nothing.\n\nTry subscribing to a better bandwidth provider. DSL,Cable
614311
Probebly from all the trafic their servers are trying to deal with... if you've ever downloaded something when 100 other people are downloading the same thing (in some sites) you may see a lag in time (it takes longer then usual to download the amount of Kilobytes then normal).\n\nIt also depends on your browser, my FireFox (with all the crazy security plug-in's and updates takes twice as long as IE to load pages with scripts/java/multimedia. \n\n;-)\n\nCheck your browser settings too.\n\n(But most likely I think it's how they programed their sites, and their lack of getting trafic to move faster through accessing data on their servers, but that's my personal opinoin).\n\nP.S. there is nothing wrong with your physical connection (not on your end, nothing is wrong on your end).
144221
you can get improved downloads by getting the free program called   free download manager,  it is free!  it will not speed of your computer but it makes more channels available for the data to enter you computer so you get the data a little faster,, also if you have to reconnect it starts were you left off so you do not have to start all over,, just go to www.freedownloadmanager.com or do a general search for it,, there are lmany sites were you can download free stuff like games, security programs,,, try tucows, or just type "free downloads" "freeware" etc in the search bar!!!!