Internet speed is 20mbps download but I get 1mbps on firefox?

[CM PUNK]

This is so frustrating

[Fahad]

Set proxy setting of your browser or use chrome would be the best.

[Jack]

use this software if you want to get around 2 to 3mb/s Internet Download Manager

[rowlfe]

You confuse SPEED with THROUGHPUT. I am guessing you have a wireless link to your router and you are on a cable broadband system, yes? If so, YOU are a victim of the dreaded "party line effect", which is a general slowdown of the network. It happens for two reasons. First the access point, which has only ONE transmitter and so can talk to only ONE user at a time, in a daisy-chain manner. The more users, the longer it takes for you to get a turn, and the slower your data transfer. Second, traffic jams. On a party line, you listen to see if the line is clear and if it is, you talk. No problem. If the line is busy, you wait until it isn't and then you talk. Again, no problem. The problem arises when more than one user is waiting for the line to clear. When the line clears, everyone waiting all try to talk, interfere with each other and no one gets through. So, you wait for a reply and not getting it, you try again, and so does everyone else so you collide again, and again, and again, until finally one of you gets far enough out of sync that eventually one user transmits and everyone else is forced into another waiting period. This traffic jam means there is DEAD time with NO data moving at all. So, the end result is this: your connect SPEED is a constant since that depends on the radio frequencies in use. But THROUGHPUT (amount of data moved per unit time) drops like a rock as there are more users sharing the single access point transmitter and causing traffic jams. And THAT is the party line effect in a nutshell. The numbers you get for cable broadband are a theoretical MAX value. Since cable is a party line you (exactly like wireless but on a grand scale and using wire to carry the radio signals) will NEVER even come close to the theoretical speed. So, the problem is the number of users sharing the party line with you. The more there are, the slower everyone goes. you can take comfort in that the effect is equal opportunity with everyone slowing down equally. You are NOT alone with this problem as it affects ALL of your neighbors up and down the street who are on cable with you, and also all of the wireless networks you can hear as well. The BEST performance is through wire, not wireless, with one computer running one application. Add more computers and/or applications, and you share the link to your ISP among all who want to use the link, which slows down your home network. And then you face the same problem on cable broadband, which is NOT under your control. If you insist on using wireless, then you only have yourself to blame since you are competing with everyone else using wireless around you. How many wireless networks can you hear? Each one counts for 2 transmitters sharing the party line with YOUR transmitters. You have to wait for them to stop talking before you can talk, just as they have to wait for you.

[Michael]

Did you go to Speedtest.net and it said 20mb/s Mine said my internet was 18mb/s but on steam I download at 2mb/s. Speedtests suck.

[Boss]

It might have something do with your ISP.