Ed Mullen wrote:

Surely you've got that backwards:  Shouldn't it be 50 M down and 20
up?

And, please cite specific sites where your issue happens.  No matter
what your ISP speeds, servers/specific sites throttle bandwidth. You
can do a speedtest.net test and see your ISP throughput but, in real
world usage, you'll never see those speeds.

I routinely get the bandwidth promised by my ISP and measured by speedtest (49/39 just now vs. advertised 50/25). A client asked me to download a 144 MB file the other day, it took only a minute. It wasn't compressed, and Windows Explorer confirmed the size. Took her hours to upload. ;-\

You're right that a slow server won't take advantage (arirang.co.kr is a chronic offender, probably overloaded due to the ferry disaster), but what's to keep you from pulling content from several servers at once? Case in point (not that I'm advocating it): uTorrent and its kin.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher

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