My download is way lower then speedtest shows it

May 22, 2018
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So the problem is when i download things of the internet it's capped download speed is 50KB/s
which is depressingly slow. The weird thing is when i test my internet speed it says. https://imgur.com/a/hgtmhxS so its super anoying having to wait 12h to finish downloading something that is 2gb big.
Hope somebody can help me

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600K CPU @ 3.80GHz
16 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
500GB SSD
1TB disk
 
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The speeds doesn't depend only on your internet speed. Somewhere there is a server which need to send those files to you. If this server is overloaded or just have a limited upload for single user then thats what happens. Remember that your maxiumum download speed will be the maximum upload speed of the server.
Most of the online upload websites have those limitations for peoples without some magical premium account.
But since your file is 12GB i suppose that you are either downloading a steam game (Head to options and change download server location) or torrent that may have low amount of seeds or huge amount of leechs in this case the problem should solve after time (of course not if torrent is dying and dont have any seeders).

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The speeds doesn't depend only on your internet speed. Somewhere there is a server which need to send those files to you. If this server is overloaded or just have a limited upload for single user then thats what happens. Remember that your maxiumum download speed will be the maximum upload speed of the server.
Most of the online upload websites have those limitations for peoples without some magical premium account.
But since your file is 12GB i suppose that you are either downloading a steam game (Head to options and change download server location) or torrent that may have low amount of seeds or huge amount of leechs in this case the problem should solve after time (of course not if torrent is dying and dont have any seeders).

If you think the problem is on your side then try to reinstall your ethernet card drivers. But since your speedtests go fine then its unlikely your fault.
 
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