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.

  • ppp@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    If it’s advertised as 50 megabits per second then that’s 6.25 megabytes per second. Most speedtests show results in megabits, not megabytes. Most downloads will show in megabytes, not megabits.