Internet speed slowdown????

[pauld]

I'm meant to have a T1 (1.5mbps) connection on my iBook but recently (all this week) i've been struggling to touch 200kbps.

Would anyone know what i can do to figure out what is going on?

thanks in advance.

 

[FuzzyBallz]

You got a router? How close are you from the hub? Call your ISP?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm meant to have a T1 (1.5mbps) connection on my iBook but recently (all this week) i've been struggling to touch 200kbps.

Would anyone know what i can do to figure out what is going on?

thanks in advance.

Maybe it's the age-old kilobits vs. kilobytes problem? If your connection is rated at 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second), that's equivalent to 187.5 KBps (kilobytes per second) - the speed your Mac probably reports.

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

I have a 1.5megaBIT connection to the internet myself, which means I can only get (as wrldwizrd89 said) 187kiloBYTES/s MAX.

so are you sure its 1.5megaBYTES or BITS?

 

[homerjward]

Maybe it's the age-old kilobits vs. kilobytes problem? If your connection is rated at 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second), that's equivalent to 187.5 KBps (kilobytes per second) - the speed your Mac probably reports.

whoa! i get 200KBps downloading large files, but a test shows ive only a 1.2ish Mbps connection.

 

[pauld]

hey - now all of a sudden i'm getting 873 kilobits per second.!
don't care what happened now that it works again! (porno, come to me my beautiful beautiful porno)

thanks for the help guys.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

hey - now all of a sudden i'm getting 873 kilobits per second.!
don't care what happened now that it works again! (porno, come to me my beautiful beautiful porno)

thanks for the help guys.

The Internet can be strange like that. Sometimes my download speed is around 5 kb/s - equivalent to a 56k modem - even though I am connected via cable modem.

 

[Rocksaurus]

So... 200kpbs wasn't good enough for porn...? You're weird.