slow broadband

allison

hello all

wondering if anyone can help me, i have 3mb broadband and only getting 500kbps, why? i've checked with the company i'm with as i work for them and have been assured i am getting 3mb speed, but i'm not, is it a problem with my computer or what?

Rollo Tamasi

have you ran a spyware/virus check ?

Endurance Man

allison wrote:

hello all

wondering if anyone can help me, i have 3mb broadband and only getting 500kbps, why? i've checked with the company i'm with as i work for them and have been assured i am getting 3mb speed, but i'm not, is it a problem with my computer or what?

Where are you getting that 500kps reading from?

if it's an eircom line your on then it could be the line, give the techs a ring and ask them to check the line. i had to do the same myself a few weeks ago.

8T8

Your certain you have a 3 Megabyte line ?
3MB (Megabyte = 3072k)

As 3Mbps or Mbit/s (Megabit) equals 3096kbps (Kilobit) which equals 387k (Kilobyte) or thereabouts at least.

I have a 4Mbps line from Eircom and it gives a speed of roughly 445k (kilobytes) though not all servers actually serve you at that speed some are slower than others.

L31mr0d

yeah. what he said. just devide your speed by 8. That is what you are actually getting in bytes. I think it is a scam that broadband companies advertise their packages in bits, when the rest of the world has moved over to bytes.

Use bandwidth place to roughly test your actually speed in bits.

DemonOfTheFall

Where are you getting 500kbps from ? What program or website is telling you that ?

What company do you get your broadband from ?