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Download speed stuck at 170


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i have att uverse. speed checked at 1440 kb down and 900 up. forward my port already and it is fine. i just moved to a new place and got uverse, but before i had comcast and was downloading at 500 from utorrent, now it only goes up to 170. anyone have any ideas on what i can do? i have already looked at the speed guide and doesnt seem to do anything.

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You are downloading past your theoretical speeds :D Well not exactly, but very close. You cannot download any faster. As kurahashi-san will attest you are confused due to the units problem faced by anyone who reads ISP advertisements and notices "hey I'm only downloading 100 KiBps but my ISP says I have 1 Mbit"... You are not alone ;) The difference stems from the fact that ISPs and speedtests use kilobits per second (Kbps) but uT and other windows applications use KiBps (kibibytes per second). Since there are 8 bits in 1 Byte that is where the apparent discrepancy comes from.

Do you have any other questions?

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