band width

[bubbles4920]

how do i make my band width bigger?

[Huderon]

You pay for a higher speed connection.

Whatever broadband connection you are using, your upload speed will be a lot less than your download speed, but if you suspect that you aren't getting the kind of speeds you expect, use one of the broadband speed testers (well, try several of them) and run the test several times at different times of the day (including during the evenings when things at your ISP are likely to be busy).

Some ISPs automatically restrict your bandwidth if you download too much in too short a time (I think it's called throttling). This is to prevent a limited number of users from hogging ISP's connection. You can get round this to some extent by doing downloads during the day or overnight.

If you are using an ADSL connection, there will be contention. This is where your ISP has a limited number slots for people to connect to, and more people trying to connect than there are slots. When that happens the ISP shares a slot between a number of people (the contention ratio e.g. 10:1 where up to 10 people can be sharing the same slot at the ISP's end) and that can affect your actual connection speed.

That "up to xMb" you see in the ads for ISPs means just that, and it's there because the ISPs can't promise to give you a maximum speed connection at all times.

Here we have a 10mbit cable connection. That's more than enough to let three of us (on different computers) watch things like TV programmes or listen to the radio on line while chatting, playing games or doing other downloads at the same time, without any noticeable difficulties.

[markja]

give the drummer more pies,
not helpful i know.