help me allocate more bandwidth

dakota cola

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Feb 15, 2014
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i have this incredible gaming computer being held back from its true potential, my internet speeds are terrible. im currently downloading a 5 gig game and have never gotton above 300kbs in the past 4 hours. i have an asus router that was about 110 dollars i bought a couple weeks ago and am paying for 25mb connection.

how do i get more out of my connection?

how can i allocate more bandwidth to MY desktop.

anything else?

tl;dr help me improve my download speeds
 
First you do not want to run on wireless if at all possible. Are you competing with other users for the bandwidth in your house ? Unless your router has QoS there is little you can do other than ask them to not use it so much. Even with QoS it will be very difficult to ensure your machine gets more since it is very tricky to get a download limit that works without in effect shutting everyone else out.

Do you get good download speeds to the speed test sites, it could be a issue with the path between you and the game site or the game site itself could be limiting the rates. You will have to do some more investigation to find the bottleneck.