Originally Posted by
tesco
For 8-9MBps that speed is about right (850kb/s).
My ISP (Rogers) is introducing a new feature where when you start a download it will initially download at a rate faster than you pay for.
For example what they are testing now is to allow a 16Mbps burst on a connection you are paying for 10Mbps.
In the real world this is useless because when you actually need the speed (downloading big files) it becomes throttled. It just gives the effect of a faster conenction when downloading web pages or small image files.
Your ISP might be doing the same and that is why you are seeing 1.5MB/s on a 8Mbps connection.
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