Why is my download speed so slow?

Question

ok, so i took a speed test on Speedtest.net and it says that my download speed is 402 Kb/s. yet when i'm downloading files the maximum speed it goes up to is 30 kb/s. i tried download accelerators (lots of them), but they only made downloads 2-3 kbps faster. why is my download speed so slow?

btw, the speed of my wireless connection is 36.0 Mbps (as it says in the taskbar icon).

Answer 1

clean your hard drive

buy Norton 360

it gets rid of junk and viruses

Answer 2

maybe depending on how old it is (the computer) or was it a really cheap your computer was

Answer 3

your answer Is

The difference between Bits and Bytes

you have 8 bits in 1 byte

Example My speed is 1500kbits ps my maximum download speed is 150 bytes per second

So no matter what speed your connection is your download is always 1/10 of rated speed, this is maximum but depending where download is from could be less as some servers limit bandwidth so more can download from them