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So, I have a problem.. When I go to download things on uTorrent, steam, origin or whatever it might be things still are pretty fast, but it's just not matching what it should be? On Ookla SpeedTest my download speed displays that from my provider, Bournemouth as I live in the south west of England on the lower coast is about 8 to 9+ Mbs, but when I go to download something? Boosh lets just stick that download speed at a 1 Mbs for you. I really dont understand, someone please help me.. Here's screenshots to show you, my IP is Sky for your information;

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On uTorrent, above, it usually hits 1Mbs and then drops again, then regains to 1Mbs, on Origin, it's about 1.5Mbs, maybe. Someone please help me on this? Thank you.
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That makes perfect sense. Ookla is showing megabits per second and uTorrent is showing megabytes per second (Mbps vs MBps).

1 MB = 8 Mb

9 Mbps = around 1MBps
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Don't complain dude, I'm lucky if i get above 500KB/s on uTorrent, steam etc...
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Zach, You mad yet? ^^


OP: Look at my speed, I only get 1MB down on utorrent. Its affected by the amount of seeds that there are on the torrent.

The speeds vary from torrent to torrent, so dont expect to get the same speeds all the time
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Be lucky man I only get 180kb MAX
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This is off topic but im going to bournemouth this thursday just saying.....lol
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