What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?

[Powerslave]

I download with 1900kb/s on ftp but almost never get that speed anywhere else. Torrents usually go with 100-300kb/s and every once in a while I get 1 mb/s. Websites don't load that fast either, which is weird.. and whenever I have utorrent running, no matter what I download or not, everything goes slower instantly.
What the fuck is going on and why should I pay for this connection if everything goes relatively slow anyway? Help would be much appreciated, I'll suck your toes.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Are you on DSL or cable? For what it's worth my browsers chug like a bitch whenever I'm grabbing torrents on the same computer, and I could never figure out why.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

it's because you're capping your UPSTREAM even if your downstream still has some space

you can't send the packet requests

smh at slow pirates

[Powerslave]

Are you on DSL or cable? For what it's worth my browsers chug like a bitch whenever I'm grabbing torrents on the same computer, and I could never figure out why.

DSL

it's because you're capping your UPSTREAM even if your downstream still has some space

you can't send the packet requests

smh at slow pirates

Do you mean this?




I have it set to 2Mb upload. And my upload is only 120 kb/s  -.-

[Howard Alan Treesong]

if your upstream is uncapped then your download is going to be perceptively slower because you're unable to send these information requests

cap your upstream

[Powerslave]

Cap it how much exactly? Also there has to be something wrong with my utorrent and modem settings. Help me out man

[Tieno]

-Install the fasterfox plugin for faster browsing
-Use the combo of flashget (download manager) and firefox 'flashgot' plugin, every big file I download from the net I run through the flashget download manager so it can download the file with simultaneous connections (up to 10 or 30). I download the 1upshow at my max speed of 3 megabyte/s with 5 or 10 simultaneous connections. Everything above 1mb...it has become a habit and this way I can download files way faster than a single connection allows so I can fully utilize my max speed. It also supports resumed downloading.
-For torrent I opened a few ports on my router and on good torrents I sometimes can get up to 1mbyte/s (I usually cap global upspeed at 10kb/s).