Severly fast internet but Severly slow download speed
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stepanfrancis
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I used to have that sort of problem before too. My computer works so slow and it affected my internet speed. It is either you clean your computer a little bit or try to open less program while you are downloading. Anyway, I did not know this at the time, but one of my colleagues recommend KingDownloadManager. It solves the problem as well.
someoneint
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My isp's excuse is that their speed (and the speed test's speed) are in mbit which is defferent than mb (what you wil proberbly see when you download something) an mb is around 1/8 of an mbit. Could be confusing but it could be the reason, hope this helps!
Barty1884
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I think there's some confusion here, but correct me if I'm wrong.
You see download speeds of 700kB/s (KiloByte per sec) when downloading
SpeedTest.net (or similar) is telling you you have 86.02 Mbps(Megabits per sec)
Sure, your ISP likely does measure/promise etc in Megabits (sounds better). 86.02 Megabits is roughly 11 Megabytes.
So you have a theoretic download speed of 11 Megabytes per second (pretty good).
The problem is there's two sides to this (at least). Just because you have that theoretical download speed, doesn't mean you can utilize it. If the server your downloading from limits speeds, or is at it's maximum, there's very little you can do to increase your speed.
Can you give us an idea of a specific example of a download for you?
You see download speeds of 700kB/s (KiloByte per sec) when downloading
SpeedTest.net (or similar) is telling you you have 86.02 Mbps(Megabits per sec)
Sure, your ISP likely does measure/promise etc in Megabits (sounds better). 86.02 Megabits is roughly 11 Megabytes.
So you have a theoretic download speed of 11 Megabytes per second (pretty good).
The problem is there's two sides to this (at least). Just because you have that theoretical download speed, doesn't mean you can utilize it. If the server your downloading from limits speeds, or is at it's maximum, there's very little you can do to increase your speed.
Can you give us an idea of a specific example of a download for you?
someoneint
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now I'm thinking it could also be your isp is throtteling you if it is on like every download (not just a few) if it is just on specific ones I must agree with Barty that it is the server 
Barty1884
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If you're talking downloading a driver from Gigabyte (for example), then you're very likely limited by their servers.
If you're talking torrents, with speeds displayed in a torrent client (uTorrent etc) then it's quite possible your ISP is throtteling you.
If you're talking torrents, with speeds displayed in a torrent client (uTorrent etc) then it's quite possible your ISP is throtteling you.
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