Horrible downloading speed... but fine upload + ping.

[Nadril]

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-06 23:42:41 EST:

 

44 / 762

 

Your download speed : 44 kbps or 5.5 KB/sec.

 

Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked?

 

 

 

Your upload speed : 762 kbps or 95.2 KB/sec.

 

 

 

 

 

Copy and pasted from a test I took.

 

 

 

The past few days i've been having a lot of problems with my download speed. Quite frankly, it sucks right now. The thing is however, is that when I go to upload I upload at a perfectly fine rate of speed. I thought that download speed was suposed to be faster, or at least about on par, with upload!

 

 

 

The other problem is my ping. I'd think that if the connection was slower I would simply get a worse ping, but that's not the case. In fact, my ping in ventrillo right now is 74! I get simular pings when I went to look at UT2004 servers (got around 50-100ping).

 

 

 

 

 

So my question is, why is my download speed so incredibly slow? I am running a 10/100mbps adapter (it's a linksys USB wired adapter, and yes it is in 100mbps mode right now) but it's still just downloading very slow.

 

 

 

 

 

For the most part games are working fine for me. I mean, I'm getting some lag [bleep]es in MMO's here and there (mostly in guild wars past few days...)

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I should mention i'm in a dorm, so i'm using their internet. It is a cable line (broadband.. I think).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any ideas on how I could fix this?

[Cruiser]

Being in a dorm (assuming college/univerity), you're most likely being thottled for going over your weekly/monthly download limit. Every dorm system I've ever heard of has a limit on download ammounts because of the sheer number of students that abuse the high speed connections torrenting things. It could also just be the network is being saturated by everyone else using the system, going back to the heavy downloading that goes on. :? I'd check with your dorm staff/website/admins and find out if it's a network/limit issue before going to hardware.

 

 

 

It may also be bad hardware (Do not assume this first). My old d-link router decided to crap out on me and was only giving me about 1/3 of my total download speed, while still running fast enough for uploads to run at 100%. After switching out hardware I was back up and running at full speed. I gotta say it again, check this last.

[Nadril]

Yeah that is probaly it... I was just hopping it could possible be something else, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

Ah well, :wall: at least I can still play games fine.

 

 

 

 

 

And I just bought my Ethernet adapter a week ago :D

[Cruiser]

I'd still go track down your dorm staff/techie just to be sure. :P

[Nadril]

I'd still go track down your dorm staff/techie just to be sure. :P

 

 

 

I might try contacting them later. The thing is is that they are still swamped a bit because school just started about a week and a half ago.

[username388]

Yeah that is probaly it... I was just hopping it could possible be something else, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

Ah well, :wall: at least I can still play games fine.

 

 

 

 

 

And I just bought my Ethernet adapter a week ago :D

 

If you just bought your ethernet adapter a week ago, that could be the problem. Try putting your old one back in.

[Nadril]

Yeah that is probaly it... I was just hopping it could possible be something else, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

Ah well, :wall: at least I can still play games fine.

 

 

 

 

 

And I just bought my Ethernet adapter a week ago :D

 

If you just bought your ethernet adapter a week ago, that could be the problem. Try putting your old one back in.

 

 

 

Why do you think I bought one?

 

 

 

:wink: