Is this speed test good or not?

[Robert]

Running this test on http://www.speedtest.net with normal circumstances in my house I got 47 ping and 1.19 mbps download. Does this mean that if I downloaded a game on steam I would get 1.19mbps download and is that good?
when I download a 10gb game I get on average 256kbps, I don't know how far away I am and my speed test average is 1.14mbps. I s there any way to speed this up because my ISP promises 16mbps and my friends get that and they don't even live far away from me.
Ricky can you suggest a way that I can improve my internet speed?

[Robert]

it depends upon a few things. Is that speed stable, test at different times. what size is the game. regard being good then it depends how far you are from the exchange and what the signalling is sent on copper or glass.

[RIcky]

The speed is not good, it is only like 225KB/sec which is not a fit speed to download basically anything, anyway most steam games are large like 5GB, that means it would take you like 11-15 hours to download a 5GB game, you should try to get a better speed : )

[Razule]

If you're supposed to be getting a 16megabit/second connection from your hosting company but you're only getting a 1.19megabit/second download speed on a test I would call them and have them take a look at it as that's barely over 1/16th of your speed and is ridiculous.

Further when you're downloading a game or something it generally displays the speed in Kilobytes or Megabytes/second which is different from how your internet speed is measured. 1Megabit = 0.125Megabytes. which means your downloading a game at 256Kilobytes/s is equivalent to almost a 2Megabit download speed. Still 1/8th your promised speed.

How to speed it up? For starters tell your internet company to figure it out. that's a ridiculous difference in promised to actual speed. Second if you're downloading the game through steam or another download program sometimes they have a cap on speed and you're just doomed. Other times something isn't set right in the configuration. I forget what tab it's under but if you open Steam's properties (assuming that's what you're using) there is a place where you select your connection speed. I've noticed that if this is set slower than your actual speed it can slow down your downloads.

Additionally if you're using a downloader for a game like League of Legends or any of the Blizzard game series like WOW or Diablo or StarCraft, those tend to use peer-to-peer downloading similar to bit-torrenting and that doesn't always work well. Usually such a downloader will have a spot on it to change options or configure it so it's not using p2p and is just directly downloading the material.

For general downloading that would normally use the standard windows download manager (or whatever is built into your browser) I suggest getting a program called "Free Download Manager". It has a way of getting around sites that put limits on speed/connection and often times will let you get files way faster than using the standard downloader. The website is in my sources. I don't suggest the Light version as it seems to have bugs.