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Bandwidth Issues

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/bandwidth-issues.164661/

mohityadavx
mohityadavx Original post #1
Oct 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM
If I am having a connection of 512kbps so 64kbps is the max speed i get ? Also if i am getting like 40kbps is it reasonable can the company say that 64kbps is max speed u will get and 40kbps is due to heavy load it will go away blah blah
W
Oct 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM
you get ~90% of max speed as rest is used in overhead(install any bandwidth manager & it will show 64KBps usage for file downloading at ~57KBps in browser/dl manager).40KBps though is not acceptable for 512kbps connection & you should complain demanding explanation(if by chance it is BSNL then it is technical error due to poor line condition etc but not sure about local small cable net providers).
dashing.sujay
Oct 13, 2012 at 4:32 PM
I get 40KB/s in 256kbps connection (Airtel).
Ashokkumar01cbe
Oct 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM
@What is the price and DATA for your plan.
Ashokkumar01cbe
Oct 17, 2012 at 3:56 PM
@whitestar-99,dashing sujay,What is the price and DATA for your plan.
ravi_9793
Oct 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM
If I am having a connection of 512kbps so 64kbps is the max speed i get ? Also if i am getting like 40kbps is it reasonable can the company say that 64kbps is max speed u will get and 40kbps is due to heavy load it will go away blah blah

I guess you have a home broadband plan.
All home broadband plans comes with 1:2
Means plan with 512 kbps speed with have speed range of 256kbps - 512 kbps.

So, on a 512 kbps plan, your download speed should vary between 32 - 64 KB/sec.
But in actual practice, users on 512kbps plan generally get speed of 50-64 KB/sec
swatkats
Oct 17, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Depends from where you are downloading? Generally with Torrent Downloads you could saturate the whole line.

on a 512Kbps connection you can expect download speeds between 50-64kb/s.

I guess you have a home broadband plan.
All home broadband plans comes with 1:2
Means plan with 512 kbps speed with have speed range of 256kbps - 512 kbps.

If you are talking about Contention Ration of 1:2 then you are way wrong.
Generally Home/Residential Broadband have contention ratio of 1:10 .