Why do some files download faster than others

Tired of troubleshooting your Windows or Mac? Looking for advice on apps, browser extensions, or utilities to accomplish a particular task? Let us know! Tell us in the comments below or email david. The A. About Lifehacker Advisor Lifehacker Store. By David Murphy. Photo: Shutterstock Shutterstock. We should also mention that if you have one too many downloads in progress, you will not get uniform speed across all files that are downloading.

Some files might download faster than others. This will be limited to how much bandwidth you have to allocate in the first place. For example, if you have a 20Mbps connection and five torrents in progress, you cannot allocate 10Mbps to each one. We should also mention that some ISPs try and throttle internet speeds. This particular fix is only worth trying if all your torrents are slow to download instead of just one. Menu Menu. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread.

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Forums Laptops Laptop General Discussion. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next. Loopyjasper Honorable. Oct 19, 5 0 10, 0. Hello, I have just bought a new Fujitsu laptop which I have connected to the same router as my wife's Samsung. We have both run download speed tests on speedtest. Can anyone help with this problem? Thanks, Japlex. Carobthomp Honorable. Nov 12, 0 10, I work for an ISP, so I can tell you for a fact, they can't really do anything here, it is their job just to provide you with the speed to your modem.

If you are connecting over WiFi, this is normal because WiFi speeds are completely inconsistent. If you are hardwired, then that makes it a bit easier. It also has a lot to do with the connections coming from the servers, and there is no way to guarantee any sort of dedicated speed. The 5Mbps you get from your ISP is an up-to speed, so at maximum, that is what you will download.

If you find it's not doing it for you, I would try maybe upgrading your internet speed, or if using WiFi, do some troubleshooting to improve that WiFi speed. Jan 18, 0 18, Well, sites like rapidshare throttle their service.

Download sites like that HAVE to throttle speeds because if they allowed everyone to download at their max speed, they would have service issues. Some download sites let you pay to unlock certain features like uncapping bandwidth restrictions and how many things you can download at once. Carobthomp :. I get that it will go slow for some sites, but it goes slower than it should. Other people get faster download speeds than I do at the websites that go slow for me. I know it's some other problem, but I don't know what's causing it or how to solve it.

Listen, you are getting your advertized speed, your Steam download speeds proves it. If you are getting slower speeds elsewhere, then that means that there is throttling from the server you are downloading at or there is large distance between you and the server latency , both of which you have no control over. Kewlx25 Distinguished. Oct 23, 2, 0 20, I just want to point out how slow the speeds are.

I recently got an "upgrade" to my internet that was supposed to change the speed. You could try doing a trace route or ping to the server from which you are downloading, while you're downloading.

This would give you an idea if the path is congested. It's relatively easy to figure out if your network connection is bad, because it negatively affects everything you do.