Posted by Undertaker on 12/21/2004, 2:19 am Well, there are two reasons for this. The first is that you have to know where you're downloading from. If you're downloading from another dial-up user, your speed isn't going to be as great. Some broadband ISPs even put a "cap" on the speed at which you can download off of computers connected to their WANs (wide-area networks). For example, JohnDoe Cable ISP can give you a maximum download speed of 400K/s, but you may only be able to upload at only 15K/s. You will only get to take advantage of 400K/s download speeds from ISPs or T-1 or T-3 users that allow it. Second; sure, you have a 56K modem and you wonder why it isn't downloading faster than say 5 or 6Ks a second. Well, in the United States of America, the government has limited phone line transmission speeds to 33.6Kbps (there are probably security reasons for this). This means that even though you have a 56Kbps modem, the maximum transmission speed you can operate at is 33.6Kbps (and again, this is assuming that you're the only one dialed-up into your ISP's mainframe network). However, we all know that tens of thousands of users are simutaneously connected to ISP networks for Internet access.
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I see this alot over the Internet, from board to board. I was just viewing my old board, and they're wondering why a 56K modem only downloads at 4K/s.
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