Why do I upload and download slow...

[science]

Thats my thingy from speedtest.net, you can all see what it says.

My question is, why do I only upload at a max of 70kbps and download at a max of 500kbps
All my ports are forwarded correctly and Im clever

 

[lagman]

Because kilobytes != kilobits
You're getting the correct speed, it's just that they are different measure units.

Try:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

In the end you'll get your speeds on both kbits and kbytes.

 

[science]

Thats what I was thinking, but hoping I was wrong lol
Thanks for the fast reply!

 

[Bob Loblaw]

500kbps is nothing to complain about. You're good to go.

I get 100kbps max on usenet with verizon dsl...it's pretty teribble but also cheap..

 

[science]

I misread what azures was saying, its actually 300kbps, which is really good, I was more interested in getting my upload higher, I want insane ratios on invite sites lol

 

[Shinji]

Sweet

 

[1man1dream]

grr I don't even get 1 mb download speed >.<

lucky *******

 

[adgloride]

Its a bit slow with my download speed as it should be 20mb and not 14. My upload speed should also be around 1mb. Its probably because I'm a distance away from the server that I have to use to test the speed.

 

[theorgan]

i got oc-700. i download full HDTV dvd's in like a minute.

 

[RiotShooter]

thats what i get. it sucks cause i only get a max of 48kB/s. even though the test says otherwise

 

[azn_225]

Thats my thingy from speedtest.net, you can all see what it says.

My question is, why do I only upload at a max of 70kbps and download at a max of 500kbps
All my ports are forwarded correctly and Im clever

same here man.. telus/// it sux thoe

 

[kellyan95]

Those are normal speeds for a 3mbit connection

 

[GBA_Temper]

Wow I thought my connection would be much faster..Comcast Highspeed with PowerBoost?? doesn't this suppose to be very fast...--->Connected to Hub

---------------->>> Not connected to hub ..Direct Connect to Netgear Modem/router

 

[jtroye32]

Wow I thought my connection would be much faster..Comcast Highspeed with PowerBoost?? doesn't this suppose to be very fast....        --->Connected to HubÂ

---------------->>> Not connected to hub ..Direct Connect to Netgear Modem/router

that's right, and that's fast.

 

[GBA_Temper]

How did your's get that high?

 

[GBA_Temper]

Here is me 4 hours later lol

 

[notnarb]

my 50 ft ethernet cable limits me to 300KB/s D:

 

[kellyan95]

Don't think so, I had a 50 ft to my xbox and it got 3000kb/s tranfser speeds from my PC, also connected to a 50 foot cord