Re: Download speeds discrepencies

From: Ron Bogart (rip.unoTHE_at_CRAPearthlink.net)
Date: 03/01/05


Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:28:47 -0800

In news:eQwI9ViHFHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Ben Stevenson <nospam@firestorml.com> did some thinking and came up with
these words:
> I am XP home and on cable broadband at 1.5 MB/sec.
>
> I go to a site that tests download speeds and it states it to be 800
> KB/sec. But when I actually download a program soon after, the MS
> pop-up box states my download speed to be 60 KB/sec. Why this large
> discrepency?
> TIA

You are limited by the speed available through the site you are connected to
for the download.

-- 
Ron Bogart {}  τΏτ¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Lovin life on Mercer Island    8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans." 


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