I've heard many answers on this subject and I have searched the internet till my eyes started bleeding. But wanted an end all, final answer from someone out there who knows a thing or two about download/upload. I have Time Warner (Roadrunner) and they advertise 7mb/s download but I have never seen download speeds even over 1mb/s. Answers I have heard so far---
--- Doesn't matter what YOUR download speed is, matters what speed the server is sending back (i.e. Yahoo, Google, iTunes).
--- It's false advertising.
--- It's shared bandwith, so my certain area shares that 7mb/s and then depends on how many people are using it at the same time.
--- Depends on where I am and where I'm pinging to. If the site is next door to me then I can get 7mb/s.
--- It's available bandwith. So if I'm downloading one movie, then I max out at 500 kb/s. If I'm downloading 14 movies at the same time, each one would be 500 kb/s for a total of 7mb/s.
Anyone know how this works? Because if the above is true, then I minus well downgrade my service and pay less if I can't use the faster speed anyways. I feel like Cable is faster than DSL but it's not like it really affects my kill/death ratio in CS:S since I tend to play on servers close to my hometown anyways. And if the above IS true, how the hell we letting these big businesses get away with ripping consumers off? I keep hearing in other countries (particularly Japan and Korea) that they get what is advertised and they get blazing fast uploads to match, not our weak upload speeds of 256 kb/s or 384 kb/s. Not exactly sure of my upload speed but I do know it's nowhere near advertised download speed. Please give me a good reason before I take this modem and shove it up someone's ass at the Time Warner office. Hurry up FIOS, we need you! Someone enlighten me, please.
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