my internet speed, is it good????

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fadygamil20

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Hi,my internet speed is 1 MB but when i download a file like 1 GB file i get
110KB/sec. ,so please, anyone tell me if this speed is the normal speed or not and if not, anyone help me improve it, thanks.
 
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HaraldViking
Your 1Mb(bits) bandwith divided 8 (8bits=1byte) gives you 125kb(bytes), so yea it's normal. Don't worry. If you want higher you need to get a better connection (paying more, contact your provider).

The following link will give you more detail if you want, I'm copying the reply sent by that user at the end just in case:
http://superuser.com/questions/89814/what-is-the-difference-between-bandwidth-and-download-speed

"The distinction here is bits per second and bytes per second.

Your internet connection speed is 256 kbps (note the small 'b'), which is 256 kilo bits per second.

There are 8 bits in a byte, which is how most applications will report how they're downloading. So 256 kbps is equivalent to 256 / 8 kBps which is kilobytes per...
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Your download speed depends on many things. First the speed of the connection for the server you are downloading from. Not sure where you are, but here internet speeds are in megabits, not megabytes. It's a little misleading. So if you have a 8 megabit connection, it would actually be 1 megabyte. Assuming this your 110 kb speed would actually be correct.
 
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HaraldViking

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Your 1Mb(bits) bandwith divided 8 (8bits=1byte) gives you 125kb(bytes), so yea it's normal. Don't worry. If you want higher you need to get a better connection (paying more, contact your provider).

The following link will give you more detail if you want, I'm copying the reply sent by that user at the end just in case:
http://superuser.com/questions/89814/what-is-the-difference-between-bandwidth-and-download-speed

"The distinction here is bits per second and bytes per second.

Your internet connection speed is 256 kbps (note the small 'b'), which is 256 kilo bits per second.

There are 8 bits in a byte, which is how most applications will report how they're downloading. So 256 kbps is equivalent to 256 / 8 kBps which is kilobytes per second which is 32 kBps. In this case, note the large B to denote BYTES.

Your internet connection of 256 kbps is raw bandwidth. Every time you make a connection, there is supplemental information sent and received. These are generally protocol specific headers / additional information (e.g. TCP headers / HTTP headers) and they add overhead to the overall communication reducing (normally only by a small amount, but still reducing) the total amount of bandwidth you have available for raw downloading of data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_computing
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HaraldViking

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Then your download speed is according to what you hired, however (as other users stated) by today's standards it's low if you plan to download games or HD movies in short time.
 
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