ravenguard Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 hi all have a problem with sky fibre and need some help ive upgraded sky broadband to 40mb fibre when i do any speed tests online with cable or wireless im getting 35mb download and 9mb upload but when i download things from ,vuze,origin,even when i install games on xbox one im only getting 3-4mb speed. been on to sky loads of time with no help,engineers have been and re-wired house and still the same. im running out of ideas with sky to fix this problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 What does speedtest.net say? Have you been downloading a lot as i'm on sky non fibre and they restrict me speed after downloading x amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyclingSalmon14 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 LOL thats normal ravenguard, even on 100 down firbe its the same... You know you can get the speed at speed test has shown it, but thats only a tiny file, you wont get anything nere your projected speed on an acutal download....LOL I wish mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenguard Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 What does speedtest.net say? Have you been downloading a lot as i'm on sky non fibre and they restrict me speed after downloading x amount. speedtest says 34-37mb down and 8-9mb up, i download a lot like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenguard Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 LOL thats normal ravenguard, even on 100 down firbe its the same... You know you can get the speed at speed test has shown it, but thats only a tiny file, you wont get anything nere your projected speed on an acutal download....LOL I wish mate! yer but if your paying for 40mb and only getting 10% thats not right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) Speed depends on the connection of the site/server your downloading from, try and download a file from one of the big names like microsoft and see what kind of speeds you get. Also try one of the big files from here http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html Edited June 9, 2014 by stretch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenguard Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 xbox one downloads at 4mb when i downloaded titan-fall, that other site wont download ,thats the site i tried when on the phone to sky is there any other sites that do a test file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schern Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Are you sure you're not confusing Mbps with MB/s? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) indeed download speed tests measure in megabits and most browser downloads etc are measured in megabytes. 37 megabit would be about 4.6 megabyte so is in line with what your seeing. Edited June 10, 2014 by stretch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenguard Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share Posted June 10, 2014 So this is false advertising from sky then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schern Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 No, just different ways of measuring the same thing. Like comparing mm with cm with metres etc. I get 75 meg, but that means 75Mbps. If I change the units to MB/s on speedtest.net then I get 9.something. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 i wrote an article on this subject a while ago, its 2 ways of measuring the same speed. If you saw an advert 'download upto 4MB' you'd think thats rubbish but if the same advert read 'download upto 37Mbit' you'd think wow that's fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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