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Splashyszn

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Hello everyone,
I am currently with metropcs, and realized my speeds are slower than I suspected, so I tried a speed test. The speed test said 90mbps download, but when I download a app it goes 1.2 mbps. I tried using fast.com to see the speeds and it said 1.4 mbps.

Can anyone help me bring these speeds to the normal range?

Thank you, and have a nice day!
 
Splashyszn said:
Hello everyone,
I am currently with metropcs, and realized my speeds are slower than I suspected, so I tried a speed test. The speed test said 90mbps download, but when I download a app it goes 1.2 mbps. I tried using fast.com to see the speeds and it said 1.4 mbps.

Can anyone help me bring these speeds to the normal range?

Thank you, and have a nice day!
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Hi @Splashyszn

As a matter of interest, how are you measuring the actual speed of app download?

When you did the speed test, what was your upload speed?
 
tommo47 said:
Hi @Splashyszn

As a matter of interest, how are you measuring the actual speed of app download?

When you did the speed test, what was your upload speed?
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I measure by how fast the download process went for different apps such as pubg which was 1.2gb, it should take from 10-20 seconds, it took about 5 minutes.
And the upload speed was 48mbps, the upload speed was always decent around half what the speed test says.
 
There does seem to be a large discrepancy but when downloading actual data there are overheads due to error checking and if necessary repeat transmissions which involves your upload speed and will therefore increase the overall download time.

I would tend to do as @ocnbrze suggested and have a chat with metro.

:)
 
I did before and they kept repeating the same things, go through the metropcs troubleshooting methods. I did but it did nothing. :(
tommo47 said:
There does seem to be a large discrepancy but when downloading actual data there are overheads due to error checking and if necessary repeat transmissions which involves your upload speed and will therefore increase the overall download time.

I would tend to do as @ocnbrze suggested and have a chat with metro.

:)
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My BT Broadband gives me 44Mb/s download and 18Mb/s upload on the speed test.

If I take a simple time check for downloading a 200Mb map to one of my navigation apps it takes 40 seconds which is 5Mb/s.
 
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tommo47 said:
My BT Broadband gives me 44Mb/s download and 18Mb/s upload on the speed test.

If I take a simple time check for downloading a 200Mb map to one of my navigation apps it takes 40 seconds which is 5Mb/s.
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Have you tried fast.com? It checks your speeds based on browsing and is more accurate than speedtest.
 
If the problem is app download speeds have you considered that it might be the Play Store that's the bottleneck rather than your phone's data connection? There are times when that does go slow, and sometimes it just decides it's going to go slow for a particular connection (e.g. a couple of weeks back I struggled to download apps at all over WiFi, even though the same WiFi connection would download entire TV shows in a matter of seconds. Only Play Store affected. Gave it a couple of days and it reverted to normal).
 
Hadron said:
If the problem is app download speeds have you considered that it might be the Play Store that's the bottleneck rather than your phone's data connection? There are times when that does go slow, and sometimes it just decides it's going to go slow for a particular connection (e.g. a couple of weeks back I struggled to download apps at all over WiFi, even though the same WiFi connection would download entire TV shows in a matter of seconds. Only Play Store affected. Gave it a couple of days and it reverted to normal).
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It's not just the play store, I cant watch twitch at 1080p60 or even 720p60, whenever I use pdanet to stream and game it crashes because it's being overused in data, even though I should have more than enough to stream and game, I could download anything and it will be at least 10 times slower than suspected.
 
Welcome to the site. I noticed slow speeds with a carrier and just gave up that it was going to remain that way. Eventually changed carriers and noticed slight improvement. Hope you get this resolved.
 
tommo47 said:
There does seem to be a large discrepancy but when downloading actual data there are overheads due to error checking and if necessary repeat transmissions which involves your upload speed and will therefore increase the overall download time.

I would tend to do as @ocnbrze suggested and have a chat with metro.

:)
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The following info is relevant to live data throughput :-

"The bandwidth of a link is the theoretical maximum amount of data that could be sent over that channel without regard to practical considerations. For example, you could pump 10^9 bits per second down a Gigabit Ethernet link over a Cat-6e or fiber optic cable. Unfortunately this would be a completely unformatted stream of bits.

To make it actually useful there's a start of frame sequence which precedes any actual data bits, a frame check sequence at the end for error detection and an idle period between transmitted frames. All of those occupy what is referred to as "bit times" meaning the amount of time it takes to transmit one bit over the line. This is all necessary overhead, but is subtracted from the total bandwidth of the link.

And this is only for the lowest level protocol which is stuffing raw data out onto the wire. Once you start adding in the MAC addresses, an IP header and a TCP or UDP header, then you've added even more overhead.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame. Similar problems exist for other transmission media."

Source :-
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24246446/throughput-and-bandwidth-difference
 
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