2Mbps download speeds on 15Mbps connection

[ranjitbhar]

Hi Ranjit,
Actually I subscribed to Beam after watching your reviews on your Youtube channel! (By the way, great videos!) My download speeds are way under the much touted 15Mbps. I am getting 1.95 Mbps. However my upload speeds are more than 7 Mbps. The Beam Customer support said that the 15Mbps is the browsing speed and not d/l speed. I don't know what it means.

Post your speed results using speedtest.net website use the Mumbai server, you should get about 14 Mbps I do always get between 13 - 15 Mbps in an around server in Indian and to US about 6-8 Mbps, with good dedicated download servers I get again the full for example I just downloaded the windows 8 dev preview its about 3 odd GB and I was getting it at full 15 Mbps speed got the entire download in about 20 - 25 minutes, BTW the download speed that is shown typicall in your browser or download client is in KB so for 15 Mbps connection it should download at around 1.8 MB/sec.

BTW the tech support call center of Beam sucks luckily I never talk to them, I talk directly to the area head in our area and he knows who I am and that I give tech advise to 100's of people so not bullshitting about tech crap and silly excuses for me

 

[adityavpratap]

Here are the results from speedtest.net -

 

[LaysyDesi]

I too was facing a drop in speed since last couple of days... a complaint is pending with Beam... though I now realized that the files server I was using is not giving me the speeds... cos I tried downloading on link-removed and it is working fine meaning giving a 4Mbps

Post FUP speed -- https://www.speedtest.net/result/1499222762.png

Though I am not sure about 15Mbps download.. are you expecting your download (as in downloading a file) to be @ 15Mbps... in which case I think the Beam tech is correct... the 15Mbps is browsing speed... which would translate to 1.5+Mbps download speeds...

To put it simple words, like Ranjith says take the speedtest.net the speed there is what we are all talking about... 15Mbps or otherwise...

 

[adityavpratap]

Somehow my posts containing links to the speedtest result are being blocked by the moderator. However here are the test results from speedtest -Download speed : 2.05 MbpsUpload speed : 10.47 MbpsServer : MumbaiIn Ranjith's video above, the speeds areDownload speed : 13.3 MbpsUpload speed : 7.6 MbpsSo there seems to be some problem at the Beamtele end.

 

[Bobbyguitarist]

msybr you are FUP'ed this month..?!

 

[Deleted member 13033]

In Delhi most of us are still fighting for 2MBps speeds btw

 

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[Bobbyguitarist]

In Delhi most of us are still fighting for 2MBps speeds btw
Humans greed has no end bro!
First you want 2 mbps..once u get that, 15mbps!! after getting 15 mbps..u want 100 mbps!! xP

 

[audioslave]

Initially, I am Greedy About 1Gbps Speeds! May God Bless us soon with Such Speeds (Hayai)

 

[ranjitbhar]

Somehow my posts containing links to the speedtest result are being blocked by the moderator.
However here are the test results from speedtest -
Download speed : 2.05 Mbps
Upload speed : 10.47 Mbps
Server : Mumbai

In Ranjith's video above, the speeds are
Download speed : 13.3 Mbps
Upload speed : 7.6 Mbps

So there seems to be some problem at the Beamtele end.

Yep looks like you are FUP'ed so you are getting the 2Mbps now........ I think for Rs 1000 i.e 10 Mbps plan its upto 10 Mbps for the first 30 GB and after that 2 Mbps, so logon to the beam portal and see how much bandwidth you have used this month, check again on the 1st or 2nd of next month and check the speeds again.

 

[adityavpratap]

@Ranjith : Doesn't seem to be the case, as I got the connection only 10 days back. The Beamtele portal shows only 4.5 GB usage. There must be something else going on.