Choked download limit?

[jsxlynn]

I just bought a new Buffalo Router which seems to work fine. I've Verizon DSL and it clocks at about 650k downspeed.

But when I download files I seem to always max out at about 90k. If I'm downloading at two sites congruently it still max's out at 90k.

I'm confused. If my download speed when checked clocks at 650k why would my ability to dowload a group of files be limited to 90k?

Thanks

 

[JackMDS]

1. What is the speed that your contract calls for?

If it basic 650Kb/sec. Download Speed should be about 70KB/sec. max combine all downloads.

650 Kb is Kilo bits. 70KB is Kilo Bytes.

Optimizing the TCP/IP Stack - http://www.ezlan.net/Internet_Speed.html

 

[jsxlynn]

Ah! Perhaps it's hard to imagine here that there are those of us who don't know their bits from their bytes. I guess it seems normal now that download speed might be measured by bits, but it still seems a bit odd and I wonder why download speed is not measured by only bits OR bytes.... I now see what I didn't before, and thank you for that.

This brings another question to mind--if I have files downloading at the maximum for my connection, which seems to be the case, and some are running in the background, how can I set things up so that when I go to, say, check weather.com it doesn't time out, or take minutes to load the page? Is a MIMO router the only way?

Thank you for the answer JackMDS, it may be simplistic to others, and now it is to me...but it certainly confounded me for awile...

 

[JackMDS]

In most cases wireless would not matter when surfing the Internet.

If you current "Speed" is 650Kb/sec. having a Wireless that is 2000Kb/sec or 22000Kb/sec. would not make a difference ($10 in a bigger purse are still $10).

Accuweather.com is a slow site it load slow even on my 6000Kb/sec. connection with wire.