I pay to 30 Mbps high speed Internet, but I can't reach anywhere near that.

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I pay to 30 Mbps high speed Internet, but I can't reach anywhere near that. I am an intermediate user of computers, so I know the basics to determine problems on my laptop. My laptop has Windows 7 and is a Dell 1545 Inspiron. I was told I may have to buy a card N-router, but when I checked the info on what's in the computer it says that I have the ability to achieve 54 Mbps. I'm confused... Please help...

Hello faerygyrl34,

At home, I have a connection to 25meg down and I see usually 2 to 2.5 MB download speed when downloading files via either wired or wireless.
It was my normal rule you divide by 10 connection speed and is normally your download speed in performance in the real world.
This has to do with the difference between MB and megabits. A megabit is about one-tenth of the information of a megabyte.
Internet provider is advertising 30 megabits, but you're going to download only to 3 megabytes.
Who is? It can be quite confusing.

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