I've never gotten that high myself, but I usually cruise around 1Mbps mark. But yeah, I think OP is upset he didn't understand what he was paying for. Still, if other countries average 150 megabits per second, I don't see why we can't.
Actually if he has a 10MBit connection... and its in BITS and not BYTES.
Then its 8 BITS per BYTE.
So his download speed is as advertised because the Bliz Downloader was showing a .8MB/s.
The OP wants more then what he paid for.
If you want Turbo Speed get Turbo.
As i and others who are on turbo have said, we get well over 20-25, and sometimes even more.
The Peak download speed i reached was roughly 2 megs per second on off hours on torrents.
I swear, the reading comprehension and units conversion in this thread is amazing....
I was getting 0.8Mbps or 0.1kBps, as in it takes 10 seconds to download 1MB of the file, or roughly 19 hours to bring down a 7GB file. Turning off P2P in the Blizzard downloader fixed the throughput and I was getting 9Mbps or 1.125MB per second, which takes my download time down to roughly 1.7 hours to download the same file.
Turning on a Bittorrent client downloading Knoppix on the same or another computer brings all computers on the network down to 0.8Mbps or 0.1kBps no matter what ports I'm requesting data from. I pay for and normally receive a minimum of 5-12Mbps. It is only when Bittorrent is running that my connection gets throttled back. I believe this is intentional and should be illegal IMO. And yes, Comcast just got their hands slapped for doing the same thing, but the decision was overturned early this year, so there is a precedent for allowing other cable monopolies to get away with this BS.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-indu...inst-fccs-comcast-net-neutrality-decision-634
Basically I refuse to support an ISP who is IMO pissing all over Net Neutrality. I have yet to see (AT&T was my ISP for the last 3.5 years) any kind of throttling on AT&T's network in my area, so I'm switching over to them.
P.S. the reduction in speed is nearly instantaneous when Bittorrent is launched, so the reduction in speed is absolutely not due to Bittorrent uploading or downloading to other peers, as almost no peers are connected when the program is first launched.
no download program will tellyou what you are downloading in Mbps, it will always be MBps which is part of the confusion.
Yes, the value was found by using Speakeasy.net's speed test (which is in Mbps natively) and by back calculating time remaining vs file size from the Blizzard Downloader. Both direct measurement and back calculation methods produced a 0.8mbps download speed as the final result.
Another case of a Nazi ISP. If people would switch ISPs instead of putting up with this crap, such things would not be happening. Time Warner would not be able to function if they had no customers. The idea of an ISP is to provide the connection, not tell people how much they can upload, what WHAT they can or cannot upload on the internet. This is absolutely ridiculous... Do you see liquor stores not selling alcohol because some abuse it? Do you see pharmacies not selling drugs because some become addicts? NO. Why should this be any different with ISPs then?
I love DSL. I can upload as much as I want, and whatever I want non stop, 24/7 and no one will ever say a word about it or throttle my connection. Sure, it is a much slower connection than cable, but at least I never have to worry about anything! No cable or fiberoptic network can beat that.
Still, if other countries average 150 megabits per second, I don't see why we can't.
WTF 150megabits per second.. are u kidding me?
thats roughly 18.5megabytes per second download.
DUDE USB2.0 isnt even that fast sometimes in HD transfer.
Your talking about the average communication time for a INTERNAL Gigabit LAN network.
WTF 150megabits per second.. are u kidding me?
thats roughly 18.5megabytes per second download.
DUDE USB2.0 isnt even that fast sometimes in HD transfer.
Your talking about the average communication time for a INTERNAL Gigabit LAN network.
I've never gotten that high myself, but I usually cruise around 1Mbps mark. But yeah, I think OP is upset he didn't understand what he was paying for. Still, if other countries average 150 megabits per second, I don't see why we can't.
Internet speeds here are pathetic. But that is to be expected when a city attempts to subsidize 300mbps internet for its residents and a cable company wins a law suit against them.
I based my estimation of 150megabits per second on the 20.3mb/s I've seen in a few reports. Again, that was something I read. Sure, not every Korean will have internet that fast, but that was the reported average. I'd wager 1-1.5 megabytes per second is much faster than the majority of Americans ever experience.I think your getting the m and K mixed up.
The AVERAGE american is on a 768kbps / 386 kbps down/up.
The AVERAGE GAMER will be on a 1.5Mbps / 768kbps
The AVERAGE Torrenter will be on a 6Mbps / 1Mbps.
In Korea the bandwith is faster then the US average, but not the high speed.
In Korea at a PC Bang... A public computer station, you get roughly 1-1.5megabytes per second in download. That is roughly a 8-10Mbps connection.
Your values your claiming are so majorly inflated..
If we had speeds that fast, the movie industry would cry.
Downloading a blue ray from itunes would take you less time to get then going over to a blockbuster and browsing though the DVD titles.
Which is far from bad. Especially considering the game is massively popular and so close to release, people flooded the bandwidth. I don't understand why you're complaining? Blizzard even offered a pre-download option so you could log in and activate your game the second it went live.
Another case of a Nazi ISP. If people would switch ISPs instead of putting up with this crap, such things would not be happening. Time Warner would not be able to function if they had no customers. The idea of an ISP is to provide the connection, not tell people how much they can upload, what WHAT they can or cannot upload on the internet. This is absolutely ridiculous... Do you see liquor stores not selling alcohol because some abuse it? Do you see pharmacies not selling drugs because some become addicts? NO. Why should this be any different with ISPs then?
I love DSL. I can upload as much as I want, and whatever I want non stop, 24/7 and no one will ever say a word about it or throttle my connection. Sure, it is a much slower connection than cable, but at least I never have to worry about anything! No cable or fiberoptic network can beat that.
I based my estimation of 150megabits per second on the 20.3mb/s I've seen in a few reports. Again, that was something I read. Sure, not every Korean will have internet that fast, but that was the reported average. I'd wager 1-1.5 megabytes per second is much faster than the majority of Americans ever experience.
I swear, the reading comprehension and units conversion in this thread is amazing....
I was getting 0.8Mbps or 0.1kBps, as in it takes 10 seconds to download 1MB of the file, or roughly 19 hours to bring down a 7GB file. Turning off P2P in the Blizzard downloader fixed the throughput and I was getting 9Mbps or 1.125MB per second, which takes my download time down to roughly 1.7 hours to download the same file.
Turning on a Bittorrent client downloading Knoppix on the same or another computer brings all computers on the network down to 0.8Mbps or 0.1kBps no matter what ports I'm requesting data from. I pay for and normally receive a minimum of 5-12Mbps. It is only when Bittorrent is running that my connection gets throttled back. I believe this is intentional and should be illegal IMO. And yes, Comcast just got their hands slapped for doing the same thing, but the decision was overturned early this year, so there is a precedent for allowing other cable monopolies to get away with this BS.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-indu...inst-fccs-comcast-net-neutrality-decision-634
Basically I refuse to support an ISP who is IMO pissing all over Net Neutrality. I have yet to see (AT&T was my ISP for the last 3.5 years) any kind of throttling on AT&T's network in my area, so I'm switching over to them.
P.S. the reduction in speed is nearly instantaneous when Bittorrent is launched, so the reduction in speed is absolutely not due to Bittorrent uploading or downloading to other peers, as almost no peers are connected when the program is first launched.
Another case of a Nazi ISP. If people would switch ISPs instead of putting up with this crap, such things would not be happening. Time Warner would not be able to function if they had no customers. The idea of an ISP is to provide the connection, not tell people how much they can upload, what WHAT they can or cannot upload on the internet. This is absolutely ridiculous... Do you see liquor stores not selling alcohol because some abuse it? Do you see pharmacies not selling drugs because some become addicts? NO. Why should this be any different with ISPs then?
I love DSL. I can upload as much as I want, and whatever I want non stop, 24/7 and no one will ever say a word about it or throttle my connection. Sure, it is a much slower connection than cable, but at least I never have to worry about anything! No cable or fiberoptic network can beat that.
Your OP still shows 0.8MBps when you really meant 0.8Mbps. It also shows you saying your connection should be at 10MBps, which you really meant 10Mbps.