Why is my computer doing this?!
It's brand new!
Windows vista basic
1 gig RAM
High speed internet
It should not be going so slow!!
Please help!
It does it in firefox
im not sure about internet explorer, but i dont use internet explorer...
Please help!
2007-09-27 06:53:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
also it's 1.6 GHZ
laptop...
but still!!
2007-09-27 06:53:49 · update #1
please answer with as much detail as possible, because i don't know that much about computers other than the basic stuff
Thanks!
2007-09-27 06:54:28 · update #2
Test your connection here to see if it is your computer or their server.
http://speedtest.net/
2007-09-27 07:01:27 · answer #1 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's normal for the download speed to show as REALLY fast when you first start, then simmer down to its regular speed after a minute or so.
If your computer consistently settles on a download speed of around 55 kb/sec no matter what site you're on, then that's normal for your connection and everything's fine. If it only ends up that slow on one particular website and everywhere else the speed is faster, then you're running into a limit that the site owner put in place.
Either way, it doesn't seem like anything's wrong with your computer or your Internet connection. Hope that helps!
2007-09-27 14:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Navigator 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off, your actuall computer specs (processor speed, RAM, etc.) have little effect on your download speed.
It depends on how fast of an Internet connection you have (also be aware that Kb (or kb) and KB are totally different...Kb stands for KiloBITS and KB stands for KiloBYTES, and there are 8 bits in a byte). FireFox (and IE for that matter) shows your download speed in Kilobytes and your Internet connection is advertised in Kilobits.
Your download speed also depends on the speed of the server in which you are downloading from. If they throttle everyone to 55KB/sec, that's all that you can download from them. This is totally up to the site owner and nobody else.
Hope this helps.
2007-09-27 13:58:51 · answer #3 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
as rightly said in first answer, the transfer rate is expressed in Kbps for connections where as the actuall transfer rate shown by sites is KBps hence if you have a 1Mbps Connection you are actually having a download speed of about 128KBps Max.
also when the download start it starts on max possible speed from server side, and then it settle down to the actual rate.
2007-09-27 14:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anant Shrivastava 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋