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Ask HN: Recourse Against My ISP's False Advertising?

2 pointsby halisabout 8 years ago
My internet becomes completely unusable for all other purposes when downloading at about 6MB&#x2F;sec.<p>I am paying for 50MB&#x2F;sec.<p>Can I do anything about this? Are they throttling me?

2 comments

danielvfabout 8 years ago
Perhaps you are confusing mega bytes per second with mega <i>bits</i> per second? Internet speeds are usually sold in bits per second, while file transfer speeds are usually reported in bytes per second.<p>Let&#x27;s do the math.<p>50&#x2F;8 = 6.25<p>Subtract a little for overhead and 6 megabytes per second sounds reasonable.
sjs382about 8 years ago
On a quick glance, with those numbers cited, it appears that you may have fallen into the Mbits&#x2F;Mbytes trap.