increase download speed?
 

is there anyway i can increase my kbs, im at 60kbs at the max. i've been reading other posts and noticed some people are at 100+kbs. any hints or tips?

hope someone can help

cheers:D

This depends on your connection speed. If you get 60KB/s (Kilobytes/sec) on a download you will, I assume, have a connection speed of 60 x 8 =480 kb's (Kilobits/sec). Unless your connection speed is much greater than this you will not get faster speeds.

http://www.dslreports.com/stest for a speed test

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=49311

explains Kb/s and kb/s

test speed results
 

i done the test and i got 167kbs down/114kbs up. is that slow?

it's not seem fast (well it depends.....) ... What type of connection do you have and does your isp say what speed you should have??? It is important to do a few tests at different times, and even from different sites to get a more accurate average.

I assumed in you first post that you were saying that you were seeing downoad speeds of 60KB/s in your download window ( not Kb/s), but I may have assumed wrong:) but if your down speed is 167Kb/s you should only be getting a rate of 167/8 = 20.8 KB/s for your downloads.

So please confirm where you got the "60kbs" from and perhaps run another speed check from another site.

the 60kbs is the number next to my file which is downloading. 60kbs is the max i've been up to. on an average, it runs at about 20-30kbs. i did several tests and their all about the same not much more at all.

You didn't say what sort of connection you have or what speed your isp claims you should have, but if your test is showing a down rate of 167Kb/s, then the sort of maximum speed you will be seeing in your download window will be 20.8 KB/s (one eighth of 167). Remember to try doing a few speed tests at different times of day and night.

You will occasionally get a freak surge, and from what you have said your 60KB/s was a freak surge.

So check with your isp and see what speed they claim you should get and if they say roughly 167 ... then you can only increase your speed with a faster connection. If they say it should be higher. explain your speed tests and see if they can't do something about it.

I hope this helps , and you haven't been too thrown out by the kilobit/kilobyte thing:)