384kbps being upgraded?

[Professor Farnsworth]

Just ran speedtest.net and got the following results:

Download: 0.63Mbps
Upload: 0.10Mbps
Ping: 65ms

How is it possible to get a download speed of 0.63Mbps on a 384kbps line?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Two obvious things to check:
- What speed your router syncs at
- Downloading a file that would max your connection speed (eg. by using a download manager)

 

[Ono'rach]

Speedtest sometimes gives weird results.... Download a file and see at what speed it downloads at in kb/s, and multiply that by 8 to see what your speed is in mbps. If you get download speeds of anything more than 48kb/s, then you are going faster than 384kbps!

 

[d7e7r7]

I'm holding thumbs for this... was downloading a file the other day and it started off at much higher than the standard line speed... was something like 120 KB/ps before it went down to normal speeds...
Speedtest says:

though

 

[Disco_Dan]

Speedtest result

Download: 0.36Mbps

Download a normal file at 34kb/s multiply by 8 and get 272 so alittle of the 384k speed

Oh how I love "high" speed internet.

 

[ChilliGirl]

will look [-]tomorrow[/-] later today...

 

[Kryon_MC]

I'm holding thumbs for this... was downloading a file the other day and it started off at much higher than the standard line speed... was something like 120 KB/ps before it went down to normal speeds...
Speedtest says:

though

When you click to save a file on the web, the download starts immediately in the background even though you still need to click download or save to location. Hence, as soon as the download bar displays, it displays the current downloaded data and divides that by the seconds since the download bar was displayed. Hence you always get a "peak" download rate when starting to download however this is not at all an indication of the speed of your line.