At the moment I have a 50 megs symmetrical unlimited internet plan, but no matter the device or connection method (5G, LAN) my download/upload speed never exceeds 5 megabytes even though the speed tests always show 50/50.

Is it possible that my ISP is limiting this speed per device so that a single device does not hold all the bandwidth?

And what does this have to do with piracy? Well, between downloading files at 5mbs vs 50mbs there is a lot of difference, especially a lot of torrents.

  • Xirup@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    In theory it’s 50 megabytes, if I perform a speedtest it usually shows 50/50 but if I download something the speed simply gets stuck at 5 megabytes, and that’s if it’s a single download, if I download something else in the same PC the speed is divided into 2.5 megabytes per file and so on constantly the more files I download and the maximum speed that the site allows me.

    And yes, the most possible thing is that I’ll contact my ISP but I wanted to know if this is something common or if they are limiting my speed.