JoshJayK 16,648 Posted March 5, 2011 1) The internet plan I bought from Fios is supposedly supposed to download at like 70 mb/s. So my questions: How many things would slow down my internet speed? Would having the laptop and itouch connected to the wifi slow down internet speed for desktop, laptop and itouch? Is wifi going to be significantly slower than the PC? Here is my speedtest: Now the thing that bothers me is that I when I use videohelper to download youtube videos from Firefox, they download at like 200-300 kb/s. And my youtube videos always buffer incredibly slow.(All this is referring to my laptop.) Is the difference in download speed from my laptop and PC that big of a deal? LAST QUESTION: What is a wireless USB adapter? Is it for improving my internet connection on the laptop or is it like a "on the go" wifi. Share this post Link to post
ViperSRT3g 224 Posted March 5, 2011 http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?input_amount=2.97&input_units=megabits¬ation=legacy Many people confuse megabytes with the appropriate measure of megabits. Note the kilobytes field. Share this post Link to post
GhoztMan 219 Posted March 5, 2011 It says 70 megabits = 8.75 megabytes.. so it's not working correctly after all, as his speedtest shows hes only at 2.97. o.o I don't know about the YouTube downloader, it's possible that there is a download speed cap that you can unlock if you pay for it (?). That's usually how things like that work. Share this post Link to post
JoshJayK 16,648 Posted March 5, 2011 If you go to this link and click the 50mbps, that's what I have right now. http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/Fiosinternet/#plans How do you know they're referring to megabits vs megabytes? And even though it's megabits, the download on firefox has been going on for like two hours. At 200 kb/s which is only 1.6 mb/s, not even close to 50. Share this post Link to post
ViperSRT3g 224 Posted March 5, 2011 Mb = Megabits MB = Megabytes kb = Kilobits Kb = Kilobytes Share this post Link to post