Internet Speed

[MinEderPlayz]

Dear community,

I recently upgraded my poor 2MBit/s DSL internet connection to FTTH with 100MBit/s speed down and up.
Although I was able to download with the full 12,5MByte/s (100MBit/s) while inside Origin and the Mac App Store, I did not manage to achieve speeds higher than 5MByte/s (40-50MBit/s) in Google Chrome 28 and no more than 7-8MByte/s (60-70MBit/s) in Safari 6 with any download server. I tested several Gigabit servers hosted by universities and popular ones like MEGA or even Apple's iTunes download. None of these achieved higher download rates.
(By the way, speedtests via www.speedtest.net taken through the browser still show 100MBit/s.)
Even dedicated speedtest servers which offer big unusable files to dowload didn't do the trick.
Is this a problem in Safari and Chrome, did I just choose bad servers or is there any other reason (and solution) for this?
Kind regards,
Tom

(Please excuse my bad English, I am from Germany and tried to avoid Google Translator - maybe that thing would have made this even worse...)

 

[iPhonemaster5S]

Dear community,

I recently upgraded my poor 2MBit/s DSL internet connection to FTTH with 100MBit/s speed down and up.
Although I was able to download with the full 12,5MByte/s (100MBit/s) while inside Origin and the Mac App Store, I did not manage to achieve speeds higher than 5MByte/s (40-50MBit/s) in Google Chrome 28 and no more than 7-8MByte/s (60-70MBit/s) in Safari 6 with any download server. I tested several Gigabit servers hosted by universities and popular ones like MEGA or even Apple's iTunes download. None of these achieved higher download rates.
(By the way, speedtests via www.speedtest.net taken through the browser still show 100MBit/s.)
Even dedicated speedtest servers which offer big unusable files to dowload didn't do the trick.
Is this a problem in Safari and Chrome, did I just choose bad servers or is there any other reason (and solution) for this?
Kind regards,
Tom

(Please excuse my bad English, I am from Germany and tried to avoid Google Translator - maybe that thing would have made this even worse...)

What provider are you using? Vodafone? Arcor? I speak German if you like type in German and I will try and respond in German. Also some areas like Düsseldorf have issues with getting up to advertised speeds.

 

[MinEderPlayz]

What provider are you using? Vodafone? Arcor? I speak German if you like type in German and I will try and respond in German. Also some areas like Düsseldorf have issues with getting up to advertised speeds.

Well, as I mentioned advertised speeds ARE achieved with Origin, Mac App Store and speedtest.net - which is the only service running that fast through the browser. All other services that achieve those speeds rely on their own apps.

And now THIS is interesting: using a Boot Camp-Windows 8 installation with Internet Explorer, I achieved 12MByte/s downloads. Just not in OS X...