Fibreoptic Broadband Download Speed

[anonymous23323124]

I just got BT Infinity fibreoptic broadband today. In house, our network is connected by a BT router and 100Mb/s (or is it MB/s?) ethernet cables.

According to speedtest.net, I should have 37MB/s download, or 22 when connecting to a server in Washington (I am in UK). However, individual downloads, e.g. from Steam or Microsoft only go at ~2-2.5MB/s. Is this limitation entirely due to the download server, or is there likely something wrong with our setup and/or speedtest.net's result?

Thanks,
Xander

[ultifinitus]

37MB/s or 37Mb/s?

I prefer speakeasy.net/speedtest

If it's Mb, 37/8 is about a MB higher than you're getting individually.

[chrisname]

Plus, you're probably sharing that connection with other people. It also depends on how far away you are from the exchange. If you were in Kent (like me :), for example, then the nearest one to you would be in Canterbury.

[anonymous23323124]

37MB/s or 37Mb/s?

Right, that's it.

I was sure it had said MB on the BT site, but on closer examination it was Mb. Ah well, that's still faster than AOL's 300KB/s

[mbentley1989]

Any Caps or throttling? I bet maybe the site won't disclose that.

[anonymous23323124]

I doubt it. This is our first day with the new service. But don't worry ultifinitus already made the valid point. I somehow managed to consistently misread Mb as MB...

[Cheraphy]

At my parent's house we have a cable modem that gets about 35Mb/s. Personally I'm hoping Google's 1Gb line's become standard (I think they are still in test market's right now, or something before that stage. either way, the idea of getting 125MB/s (that's megabyte) on downloads is something to drool over.