FAQ: WHY ARE MY DOWNLOADS SO SLOW?

Some of the best analogies for internet traffic, make reference to road traffic or water pipes. Imagine the water pipes running to your house, if one of the mains pipes was only as large as a regular pipe within your house, you can imagine how much demand there would be for the water, you'd probably only get a little trickle, if that.

Internet traffic works in much the same way, so your speed to different areas on the internet depends on the amount of bandwidth available (thickness of the pipe) and the demand from various users.

If a link between 2 major U.S Internet providers is slow, and you're trying to download off one of them through the other Internet providers bandwidth, you can imagine how that would affect your downloads.

The only truly reliable way to test your download speeds, is to isolate your Internet connection to one computer (meaning that it's the only computer connected to the modem/router) download from numerous places, and focus on speeds within the country. If you are having speed issues, We recommend you visit our Speed Test section on our website for the most accurate results. Check My Speed