I may have had a thread about this before, but I'm still not understanding why my download speeds are so slow. It's for everything, CS:S, and downloading in general. I don't understand why I'm getting about 50kb/s download, and about 130 ping in CS:S and the like. Is there anything I can use that may speed it up?

Connection speed and ping are world apart. One is how much you can get per second, second - how long does the data travel to You.

To speed up: contact ISP and buy better connection.

To get better ping: buy a cable directly to gaming server.

do you share your internet through a LAN?

The house isn't networked itself, but it's on a larger cable network through the subdivision.

Rogers sucks. Bottom line.

If it's a cable connection, it's shared bandwidth. So blame it on your neighbors.

First do a few speed test at broadbandreports.com then you will know what kind of speed you have. Then find out what kind of connection are paying for with your ISP. Post back on both and what kind of connection you have. We can tell you if it fits what you should be getting.

 

If you are only getting a 50 download speed. Then that would be top end for say a 512K connection (half a megabit) While the conversion doesnt exactly come out right say for 100 to 1 megabit it is pretty close for your purpose.

 

Downloading a file at 100 Kilobytes actually eaquals about .78 megabits.

 

BTW megabytes, megabits, kilobytes, and kilobits are not the same...they have various abrv. Like Kb and KB are not the same.

 

Here is a link to help you figure out what you have depending on what you download at then compare to what your ISP says your line is at. There will always be some over head there.

 

http://www.askmarvin.ca/calculator.html

 

Also did I ever mention DSL R0x0r5?

This is supposed to be a 10MBPS line. Now I don't know if that's for the entire area or just my connection.

 

1021/400.