At the moment I have a 50 megs symmetrical unlimited internet plan, but no matter the device or connection method (5G, LAN) my download/upload speed never exceeds 5 megabytes even though the speed tests always show 50/50.

Is it possible that my ISP is limiting this speed per device so that a single device does not hold all the bandwidth?

And what does this have to do with piracy? Well, between downloading files at 5mbs vs 50mbs there is a lot of difference, especially a lot of torrents.

  • ThatGuy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have much better speeds (1GB) and I dont think Ive ever got past 10mbs when torrenting. It can only go as fast as the seeds can upload to you. (So if they are sending at 5mbs, you will be bottlenecked by that upload speed)