At the moment I have a 50 megs symmetrical unlimited internet plan, but no matter the device or connection method (5G, LAN) my download/upload speed never exceeds 5 megabytes even though the speed tests always show 50/50.

Is it possible that my ISP is limiting this speed per device so that a single device does not hold all the bandwidth?

And what does this have to do with piracy? Well, between downloading files at 5mbs vs 50mbs there is a lot of difference, especially a lot of torrents.

  • daf@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You need to divide by 8, so your max should be 6.25.

    Speed test are megabits, files are megabytes

  • Yetanaika@feddit.clEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Normally, at least in my country, ISPs sells you plans for X Megabits, not Megabytes. So, if the contract says 50/50 Megabits, your downloading speed would be 50÷8=6.25 Megabytes max.

    Sites like speedtest.net also shows you your speed in megabits

  • D4NM3D@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    your connection is 50 megaBITS not megaBYTES… so divide 50 by 8 and you’ll get your answer…

    50 / 8 = 6.25

    Now take in to account the overheads… the speed you’re seeing is completely accurate.

    If you wanted to download at 50 MegaBYTES as you insinuated then the same math applies…

    50 * 8 = 400

    So you’d need to pay for a 400 to 500 Megabit connection.

    I have a 900 / 110 connection and my actual MegaByte speeds are 90 / 10

    You may feel hard done by, but this has always been the way… as far as I know every ISP in the world markets in Mb (MegaBit) not MB (MegaByte)