Hi people What this internet capping i think that what it is. I have a ADSL at 256kb/s but my download speed is between 25 - 30 kb/s its not exactly 256 why is this ? thanks

Hi, normally, the transfer rate is given in kbit/s. That means, you have 256 kbit/s, that is max. 32 kbyte/s. Download rates are normally shown in kbyte/s, zjat means e.g. 30 kbyte/s is 240 kbit/s. As you can see, there is a small differenz of 16 kbit/s. That's ok, because every connection needs a little bit of the speed for checking whether the downloaded packet are transfered correctly. Paul

Because your ISP is spitting the bandwidth with too many people and no one is complaining about it. You're getting screwed by your ISP. I would call them and complain about the low bandwidth. After all you are paying for a faster connection. At the speeds that you post, you could be using a dial-up line. You have to call them and complain. Get it straight or switch ISP services. Tomorrow the Stars!

...and the 'capping' part is being brought in by the majority of broadband providers to put a limit on the amount of data which an individual can download - usually varies depending on the download speed & the amount paid - for example I pay £25/month for a 2Mb connection & am capped/limited to 30Gb over a month. In theory, if I exceed this my download speed will be dropped to 56k until the end of the month. It's really to stop these guys who just continually use P2P to download big files, usually at the expense of the average user. "I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."

This is interesting. I just want to say that Internet capping is never an issue with my Verizon DSL connection. i_XpUser

Thanks people for your reply

Paul's response was a good one. Essentially you are getting what you paid for. Note: Dial up at 56k which is really more like 48k bits delivers about 6k bytes/ps (if you are lucky) versus the 25-30 you are getting so it is not at all like dial up. It's about 5 times faster as you would expect at 256. My Comcast cable has no cap either on this 6mb connection ($42/mo after discount). Yesterday I downloaded Sun Java at 15.5 mb in 21 seconds. The download dialog box showed the average speed upon completion as 757 kilo bytes per second. The fastest I have ever seen. I thought I had a 4mb connection but they must have jacked it up to 6 recently. Bryan