Slow movie downloads

[scottishwarlord]

Normally when I download movies on iTunes it takes 20mins-20mins tops, but recently my iPad seems a lot slower with app downloads of any kind and streaming videos online.

Anyway to speed up my iPad or let me know what's slowing it down?

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[Tim SPRACKLEN]

What's the bandwidth of your broadband link. That 20 minutes seems lightening fast to me - I live in a rural area so I only get 2 Mbps and downloading a movie takes many hours.

Tim

[scottishwarlord]

I downloaded a speedtest app, unfortunately the app doesn't explain what the results mean.

Speed test results this morning-

"download" 0.31 mbps
"upload" 0.54 mbps
"ping" 316 ms


Speed-test I done 5mins ago-

"download" 0.85 mbps
"upload" 0.58 mbps
"ping" 73 ms


If you know what these mean, please let me know.

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[Meridian]

Just ran SpeedTest on my iPad2 and got

Ping: 93 ms

Download; 12.73 Mbps

Upload: 4.73 Mbps

That's on WiFi using a 5th gen Apple Airport Extreme and Comcast hi speed cable.

I forgot if you said but were your results over 3G or WiFi?

Your numbers seem pretty low compared to what I see on various WiFi networks.

Speed Test will give you a comparison graph to compare your results with the national average but apparently not in the iOS app. Try it on your laptop or desktop and see what results you get.

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[scottishwarlord]

Over wifi, but I think it's the modem now. My xbox live connection is laggy aswell.

I'll test the laptop sometime tomorrow, I loaned it to my friend when got this.

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[Meridian]

Over wifi, but I think it's the modem now. My xbox live connection is laggy aswell.

I'll test the laptop sometime tomorrow, I loaned it to my friend when got this.

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Easiest thing is to pull the plug on your modem for a minute and restart it, also do a restart on the iPad. These things often clear up with a simple reboot.. Best of luck.

If it works, post new SpeedTest numbers after.

[scottishwarlord]

Result after I restarted router and iPad.

[scottishwarlord]

(Friends Connection At Top)

This is the broadband speed from my friends house.

I think I'll have to get a new modem, it's quite old and now I have the iPad, desktop, laptop and xbox live trying to split out the connection. It's running like windows '98.

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[Meridian]

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(Friends Connection At Top)

This is the broadband speed from my friends house.

I think I'll have to get a new modem, it's quite old and now I have the iPad, desktop, laptop and xbox live trying to split out the connection. It's running like windows '98.

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I definitely saw a speed bump when I went from the 1st Gen Airport Extreme to the 5th gen model recently. Swapping the modem didn't make much of a difference.

Call your ISP and report the numbers you are getting and see if they will test your connection or send out a tech for free. Depending on the service level you are paying for you certainly should be seeing numbers much higher than you are.

Best of luck!

[MacOsxPT]

When I download a file from my mbp the donwload speed is about 1.41 MB/s is 12MB of bandwith

but when I download from ipad 2 I just got the maximum about 150 kbps its very slow and I really dont know why this happens.