3 Different Supposed Speeds

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Asherim

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As far as I can tell, I'm getting 3 completely different speeds from different sources on my wifi adapter enabled desktop. The connection speed under the Network and Sharing Center in windows says 65-72 Mbps, the speed I get from things like speedtest,net (even the one on my ISP's website) say I'm getting ~12 Mbps, yet every download I've ever started has capped out at 1.2 Mbps. The only application that has ever used more than that is the Nexus Mod Manager which will use up to 2.5 if I run multiple downloads for it to build up to that (Still no single download ever exceeding 1.2). I've contacted my ISP multiple times who've told me that everything on their end says I should be getting the 12 and after a few hours all together of troubleshooting, no results. I've tried disconnecting all other devices from the network, no change, I've tried hardwired connection, no change, I've tried driver updates, no change. Nothing seems to affect it at all. This cap applies to all devices (Or at the very least things seem to download at the same speed since some don't show actual download speed during the process). I've installed a program to monitor how much of my speed things are using, and nothing (Save for the stuff I actually TRY to use) uses more than a few kb.

I'm using a custom built desktop:
- Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P Motherboard
- Netgear WNDA3100v2 Wireless Adapter
- Windows 10 64bit OS
- Windstream DSL ISP and 1704N Wireless Modem/Router (Yes Windstream sucks but supposedly I should still be getting more than this bullshit.)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Be very careful you are looking at the numbers correctly. Network connection speeds are normally stated in bits but downloads are in bytes.

The connection speed where you see 72m or whatever is not really the speed it represent the data encoding being used. You get nowhere near that speed when you consider re transmission and data overhead. Still it likely is faster than your 12m internet connection. Like a 1g ethernet connection it will transfer data between your end device and buffer in the router. It then sends or receives from this buffer to the internet connection at a different speed.
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Be very careful you are looking at the numbers correctly. Network connection speeds are normally stated in bits but downloads are in bytes.

The connection speed where you see 72m or whatever is not really the speed it represent the data encoding being used. You get nowhere near that speed when you consider re transmission and data overhead. Still it likely is faster than your 12m internet connection. Like a 1g ethernet connection it will transfer data between your end device and buffer in the router. It then sends or receives from this buffer to the internet connection at a different speed.
 
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