In a dial up connection of 56 kpbs, why do one get a max download speed of only about 10 kpbs?
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For several reasons, among them:\n\n1. Your line may be noisy, causing several frames to be re-transmitted.\n2. Other traffic may be competing for bandwidth (either from your computer, or another, if you share the connection).\n3. The modem at the other end of the connection may be rated slower.\n4. Hardware problems, such as a bad cable or connector.
1187891
call your IsP and request a higher upload speed...be prepaired for an additional cost tho.
626853
That is why - its the size of your file... 10 mb is a lot for a 56kb modem... which is why I switched to dsl.... got tired of waiting all the time.
906831
Neither when it comes to dial up.   The connection speed of dial-up is limited by the bandwidth of phone lines.  Dial-up is very slow because most people use broadband now and web pages are very large.  This can cause what the other answerer said, a bottleneck affect, because the phone line gets clogged, thus long waits for a page to load.\nIf you find that you can go get a cup of coffee or use the restroom while a page loads, it is probably time to switch to DSL or broadband.
570766
If your on dialup this is common....if on dsl or cable your bandwidth may be capped.
467059
there are 3rd party dial up providers that offer software that helps compress the data flow so as to make it seem faster. a lot actually depends on the quality of your cooper telephone lines and the equipment that is being used by the phone company.  In some areas i can get up to 53kbs, but in a town  a few miles down the road, the best i can do is 23.
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As others said, 32KB is the theoretical maximum.  However, the real number can be smaller or GREATER than that.  Here are some factors, all assume a "perfect" line:\n\n- All data communications involve a certain amount of algorithmic overhead, the exact amount varies depending on protocols.  For instance, the TCP/IP protocol uses various packets for control and signaling, these overhead packets eat into your available bandwidth.\n\n- Related to the above is that the protocols add their own data to the data your transmitting.  Data such as recipient address information, information about the data being transferred, etc.  Again, the exact amount varies by the protocol.\n\n- In these days of fairly powerful computers but low bandwidth pipes, compression plays a large factor in determining true throughput numbers.  This is the way to achieve transfer rates higher than the theoretical max.  Things like word docs, text files, xml, html files are good candidates to be compressed and therefore transmitted at faster than theoretical speeds.  Unfortunately, other than xml and html files, a large portion of whats transferred over the net today are files which are already compressed (mp3, jpg, mpg, zip) so they don't benefit as much (if at all) from compression.\n\nSo the short answer to your question is, "it depends!"
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Both your connection speed and your download speed are going to vary constantly.The reason is bandwidth and traffic.The more people online accessing the same servers,the conditions of the telephone lines and switches,and the speed at which you computer and servers, can process information due to whatever limitations of your current hardware(modem,ram,cpu chip,chip set,and fsb).Your download speed is always (with the exception of certain types of broadband not normally offered by a provider by default)going to be faster than your upload speed.This is because most personal computer users download way more ,than they will ever upload on a consistent basis.With only a 40kbps connection even at the best case scenario you are never going to achieve much more 5-7 kbps download speeds,all variables mentioned above considered.For faster downloads you are definitely going to have to upgrade your connection speed with your current provider if they offer a different package,or find a new provider that does.Remember of course with dial up you will never be able to surpass the rating of the modem your using.56k for example will max out before 56kbps and probably never actually reach it more like 52kbps tops.Check and see if your provider offers the 115kbps and up version,if they do,then all you need to do is put a v92 modem in and you can double your current speed.
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Modem 56kbps = 5.6 kbps download rate\nDsl  128kbps =12.8 kbps download rate\nDsl  256kbps =25.6 kbps download rate\nDsl  512kbps =51.2 kbps download rate\ndsl 1024kbps =102.4kbps download rate\n\nTheres no possible way to overdrive these info\nif the object youre trying to download is slower than any rate there the web nature, many different causes, huge traffic something else your downloading,m streamng audio or a video
733924
Depends on the speed you are getting, but no most 56k modems will get you arong 49k of throughput.
1084017
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).
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Unless your ISP has informed you of a limit, I wouldn't worry about it.   Check their "service conditions".  \n\nGovernment?   YIKES, are we worried about a conspiracy?   Watch out for the Black Helicopters in your neighborhood. \n\nBut your personal ethics should come into play...  "thou shalt not steal" should come into mind.\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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you cant really do that...\n\neach program you use uses your DSL to the maximum of your connection, or to the maximum that your program will let it, or to the maxiumum incoming connection.\n\nYour DSL is already maximized. The only way it can be limited that you can control is if in a program settings there is a "cap maximum download/upload rate" and it will create a ceiling limit.\n\nBut most of the time you are downloading something from somewhere, and you can only go as fast as they can send it. If you are uploading, you can only upload as fast as your DSL lets you. In either case, you are at the maximum you can possibly go.\n\nIf you are only using a little bit of your total connection at a time, you can open more downloads or uploads at once to use more and more of your connection, but it will not speed up any downloads you have.
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Only if the modem on the other end is set to the same COMPRESSION settings.....\n\nThe law limits the bit transfer limit on phone communication in the US to around 48Kb (note lower case 'b'.)  The fact that our dial-up modems can go upto 56Kb is ignored.  This means that in the US your modem can at best transfer 48,000 / 8 or 6KB of info per second.\n\nSome of that is Packet Header and Trailer information, the actual DATA throuput is less....Mine from home is between 4 and 5KB and my modem only connects at 42,000Kb to begin with.\n\nIf you get less that 48,000Kb from your connection and call the phone Co. to complain, they will happily tell you that they are only REQUIRED to provide you with 24,000 and to thank your lucky stars you have more.....nice huh?\n\nThat said there is a way, using data 'compression' to achive greater data throughput on a dial-up connection.  Some smaller ISP's have advertised "up to 5x regular dial-up speeds" for their dial-up customers.  These connections do not require special equipment per se, but they do require a modem that will support the compression type they are using to achieve their throughput claims.\n\nPS:modem means....MOdulator-DEModulator
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That's very likely because your adapter can handle alot more\nthan you're outside link can provide.\nI.e. if you have a 100mbit network card connected to a broadband\ndsl modem with 6mbit you can easily see that the network utilization\nwon't go up too far. It's calculated by the link speed of the adapter.\nThat doesn't have to be the speed you're actually connected with\non the other side of the modem or router.
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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!!!!***
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The speed on bitcomet has nothing to do with the connection speed really but the number of "seeders" that have the file you are downloading. If only one computer has the file, your speed may be 2kb which is slower than dialup. If a ton of people have a file, you can get over 150 or whatever.