bandwith question

Ok, i have AT&T dsl, and its advertised as 1.2 mB/s, but when im downloading things on my pc, I only get 160-180 kB/s, but on my xbox,psp,ps3, they get 1.2 mB/s and beyond. AT speedtest.net and many others it shows 1.2-1.6 mB/s download speed, yet i cant get over 180 kB/s. some one help.

 

Are you sure that's 1.2 mBytes per second and not 1.2 Mbits per second? A range of 160 kBytes per second to 180 kBytes per second equals roughly 1.25 Mbits per second to 1.4+ Mbits per second. If it were 1.2 mBytes per second then your kBytes per second would be in the neighbor hood of 1228.8 kBytes per second.

 

Results from http://www.speed.io
(Copied on 2010-04-27 21:54:44)
Download: 1349 Kbit/s
Upload : 975 kbit/s
Connects : 2663 conn/min
Ping: 24 ms


http://www.speedtest.net/result/796638620.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/796638620.png

sorry if my original question was worded wrong with all the kb/s kB/s, this internet stuff is new to me.

 

At first, given the numbers, it looked like you were signed up for what AT&T refers to as their DSL Express Plan. But, while your download speed is good, your upload speed is roughly 2.5 times faster than what AT&T says you can get with the "Express" package.

At any rate your speedtest.net info shows you're download speed at 1.47Mb/s = 188.16KB/s = 1505.28Kb/s

Speed.io is showing your download speed at 1349Kb/s = 168.625KB/s = 1.317383Mb/s

Where a lower case "b"="bits" and an upper case "B"="Bytes".

Those download speeds are pretty much in line with a 1.5Mbps plan.

If the "Express" plan(or something similar) is what you have, I'd say you're doing fine. Especially when you take the various overhead factors that Halo pointed out into account.

No reason to be sorry. How are you going to know if you don't ask? I think the internet stays new, at least it does for me.