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Why is my internet speed only 70mbps when I should be getting 980mbps? ?

The plan is supposed to be 980mbps but when I download a file it is only showing 70mbps.

Update:

VERIZON is a horrible company that FALSELY advertises a speed of 980mbps but only deliver 70MBPS!

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  • 4 weeks ago
    Favorite Answer

    Congestion

    As an analogy consider this scenario; You are at a card table. What you do with the cards is up to you, the card dealer has unlimited cards and deals cards one at a time very fast! You are the only player (apart from the dealer), so you get the cards dealt to you a top speed! Then someone else joins the table, and the dealer now has to deal to the both of you (one card at a time), the speed that you are receiving is now cut in half! The dealer is still dealing at the same speed! Now lets say 8 more people join the table, you are only receiving a tenth of the cards in the same time as you would if you were alone!

    Now take into account that you are not the only person in your area on the Internet, you may find it faster if you use the web at, say, 3am, than it is at busy times.

    Also 980mbps refers to the bit rate, not the byte rate, (max 122mBytes ps)

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    False advertising

    Buyer beware

    Being a former verizon tech, i have seen MANY customers paying for high tier packages and not getting a fraction of that speed.

    For every customer that complains there are 10 that never do so it's a practice what is industry wide.

    I you read the fine print there is no GUARANTEE of those speeds.

    You should NEVER need more than  what you are showing anyway.

    I know DOZENS of people paying massive bills for massive speeds and NONE of them even get a FRACTION of what the THNIK they are

  • 4 weeks ago

    My internet speed only 70mbps when I should be getting 980mbps because......

  • 1 month ago

    You have to understand the difference about bit and byte of the speed. 8 bit = 1 byte. That mean 8mbps mean 1MBPS, it's about small and big letters. Mark that first.

  • 1 month ago

    98.0 not 98, what are you, some kind of business? False advertising happens all the time. If you can't get 980mbps on speedtest.net despite being able to copy files on your computer at 1000 mbps then there's something fishy with your ISP

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    you cannot use all 980Mbps at once on one website.

    your speed is limited to the speed of the website's server's connection.

    if you want to test your speed, try this:

    speedtest.net

  • 1 month ago

    It's hard to say about the speed of downloading files .

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    Read your contract, it says, "UP TO".

    Actual speeds are dependent on the Virus your device has, the number of people on your circuit, How much junk traffic you device is running, the ISP servers, and the Website servers.

  • L.N.
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    Downloading a file is not a good test because you don't know the connection speed of the server on the other end. Try http://fast.com/ instead. 

  • jijawm
    Lv 5
    1 month ago

    Look at the fine print.

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