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.

  • Entropy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    1 bit = 8 bytes 50 megabits = 6.25 megabytes

    You’re getting pretty much what you paid for, if you want a 50 megabyte/s connection you’d need a 400 megabit connection