Why does my internet not work when downloading big files?

michaelshawjr99 · May 8, 2018

When I am downloading files and they get to around 8MB/s, I have to throttle the connection down to at least 6MB/s in order to do anything else online, even regular web pages take soo long to load them it is not even usable. After all that though, I can do a speed test and it says I get around 118MB/s so what gives? Thanks in advance!

viktoragm · May 8, 2018

The download task is using a lot of bandwidth and your browser has a lot less resources to work with, it pretty normal from My point of view. Even if you have a very fast connection, IT will always be limited by the bandwidth. Think about it this way, your connection is a two Lane road, and the download is a big truck that is so wide that it stretches on the entirety of the road, IT s not that fast but nothing smaller that a bike can fit to pass it (the browser)

DSzymborski · May 8, 2018

Are you mixing up MBps and Mbps? Internet speeds, from your ISP and from speed tests will usually give you megabits per second. But when you're downloading files, it's generally given in megabytes per second. a 100 MBps download speed is a theoretical maximum of 12.5 megabytes per second (8 bits in a byte). And in the real-world, there are a number of other factors, both on your end and the download site's end, that will keep you from maxing things out.

scout_03 · May 8, 2018

the other thing if it is a torrent you upload is to high and download could not get is share .

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