Download speed not the same as speed test

Hi Compare the speeds of the wireless cards in both lappies All the best Brett. Thanks for your quick reply. My wireless network adapter seems to be a Centrino wireless N and my wife's is listed as an Atheros AR - can't find a b,g or n in the details? Loopyjasper :. Yes, my wife's laptop is about a year old and mine was bought today. The router is only six months old and is a virgin media superhub VMDG which seems to be quite good.

I was wondering if there might be a setting on my laptop or in windows 7 that might be limiting the download speed? Jul 1, 88 0 18, Presume you doing it from same position in house?

Sorry if its am obvious question No, sensible question, we are sitting within a metre of each other and we are both about 4 metres from the router in the same room. Cheers for the advice. Unfortunately the only other friend closeby who has wireless net has a normal speed of about mbps so don't think it will tell me much!

Will try calling virgin media tomorrow and hope to get it resolved. Thanks very much for your help Brett. If anyone else has any other ideas or theories then please feel free to share them as I am willing to try anything. You must log in or register to reply here. Laptop General Discussion 3 Oct 22, Solved!

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How am I; My laptop has amd Radeon R5 m and there was no option to switch into and Radeon graphics but when I downloaded and fixed th Solved! Internet download speed is way slower on my built pc than other devices 2 different download speeds on 2 laptops but same upload speed Slow Download Speed.

Post thread. Apps General Discussion. Laptop Tech Support. Laptop General Discussion. Question MDM lock, what do I do? Mega means to multiply by one million. A 2 megabyte MB file is roughly two million bytes.

This also applies to bits. A 15 megabit per second Mb internet speed means that the connection can support up to 15 million bits per second of data transfer.

Big B represents a byte, and little b represents a bit. My guess is mixed terminology if you say the speed is 5 times higher on speedtest. Improve this answer. Would you want to test the network only, or the complete setup? As in disks ect.? Add a comment. Community Bot 1. This seems like spam for the website. The speed historically advertised by your ISP is in theory the highest speed, its not even the average speed, its a burst speed.

This is the case at least in the US. I know dozens of free alternatives to that piece of software. We don't even know what the actual problem is. I can justify an upvote on this answer because of the bad advice.

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