[Question] Download Speeds

[angiem]

Hi;

I have a question concerning download speeds. I have an AMD 2400 with 512 MB of ram and Windows XP home. I use a Dialup Lucent modem at 56 KB/sec. No matter what I do I always get a download speed of 4.5 KB/sec to 5.0 KB/sec on all downloads, large and small. I have used most of the tweakers and downloaders that their are, but no luck(multiple threads don't help). I have moved to different locations twice so it isn't my location. My question is this: is this a good speed or can I do better? What do the rest of you get?

Thanks

AngieM

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[N1K]

That is a very good speed for a 56K modem..

[bober]

that's a great speed for dial-up. the best i ever got was 3.6k.

[LLXX]

56Kb/s (56 kilobits) dialup, not 56KB/s (kilobytes).

Maximum theoretical throughput is 7KB/s (kilobytes). Highest I've seen when I was on dial-up was 6KB/s.

[Thunderbolt 2864]

Really? The best speed I got for crappy dialup was an average of 4.5KB only. Never exceeded that.

[Doctor Trout]

Dial up speeds depend on various factors outside of your control, such as the quality of the phone cable outside your house. The best advice, is to plug your internet cable into the main socket in your house, and minimize the length of phone cable. You'll never get more than about 6kb/s though.

[bledd]

what ever connection speed is, divide by 8 and thats your maximum download speed

its because Kb and kb/s are not the same thing!