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cable slows down?

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tank3544

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i recently got hooked up to cable and i'm very happy with it (coming from dial up) but i do have a question ... when i first start downloading something it says around 200-300kb/s but then slows to around 75 and usually slowly falls until its done .. is there any way to fix that?

also when i got hooked up the guy did a test on the net and it said 804 kb/s .. i know i can't get that all the time but are there any sites where someone with cable knows they get higher than 100 constant that i cant try? thanks for your help!
 
The phenomenon of slowing down is a fluke of the way the browser averages the Download at the beginning.

If you have an 800Mb/sec. (b=bit) service, and a download of a big file stabilizes on 75KB/sec. (B=Byte) you are in very good shape.
 
the guy that installed it said I should get up to a meg on fast servers .. like i said when he tested it it said i averaged 804 kb/sec .. .8 megs/sec .. however i've yet to get and stay over 100 kb/sec .. maybe i was just expecting too much .. *shrug*

thanks for the input
 
It's possible you're running into a bandwidth cap on your network. The caps don't always kick in right away - You might be able to download a file at 300KB/s initially, then the capper kicks in and slows you down to whatever your ISP has you set at. If you're getting 75KB/s, that's about 768Kb/s, a suspicious figure.

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If the guy from the Cable ISP said 800Mb/sec. b=bit. It is the same as saying 100MB/sec. (B=Byte).

1 Byte = 8 bits.

Most of the time people derive the download speed from the Browser Download Window.

Internet Explorer (AKA the Browser) reports download speed in KB/sec. B=Byte.

In other words your Download is 75 x 8 = 600Kb/sec. ?Not Bad? Ah!

Try to optimize you connection may be you will get a little better.
 
ok i think i'm confused on the bit/byte thing .. so before on dial up i was getting 2 or 3 kilobits or kilobytes? my harddrive is measured in kilobytes right? that's what i'm comparing it to .. so if i'm downloading at 75 kilobytes per second i'm actually getting 600 kilobits per second .. but since when your downloading it says the kilobytes per second the kilobits shouldn't matter to me .. in the sake of this arguement anyway .. this has me so confused lol .. how do i know if its telling me kilobits or bytes since it uses he same kb letters?
 
When you got 3 KB/sec. on the Dialup, that means 3x8=24Kb/sec.

24Kb/sec will be rendered by a 33Kb/sec Modem, or a bad 53Kb/sec. connection.

Now you get 75KB/sec. that is 25 time faster then your Dialup.

B capital B is Byte, KB=Kilo Byte. b not capital is bit, Kb=Kilo bit

Try to Download a file with I.E the Download Window says:

Transfer Rate: 75KB/sec. B=Byte.
 
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